I'm not an investor, I'm a user. To that end...
I've a short term goal for a simple web interface to fractional shares of an issue.
- Useful for non-technical people to see share ownership, and review accrued BTC dividends and see their value.
- To post bids and asks (for p2p trades of the issue, subset of localbitcoin features).
- Wallets for this may be centrally maintained so web users needn't load bitcoin-qt or counterpartyd, but may load them locally if they choose (blockchain.info model).
I'm just getting started (and admittedly have an abundance of distractions), if anyone is further along, a quick coder, or wants to take this idea, run with it, commercialize it and treat me as a customer, or just wait until I have something to look at, PM me and we'll chat it through.
There is a Web Wallet under development by the protocol developers.
For now you can use the blockscan.com website.
For this example I will use MoneyPak Trader, who has issued stock on top of the counterparty protocol. You can view the sharedholders and any dividend payments here....
http://blockscan.com/assetInfo.aspx?q=MPTSTOCK ,
If you are looking to issue a new currency/shares (or atleast experiment with it), counterparty is the perfect platform to do that. Most of the functionality that you are requesting is already available in the product and working well, it is just that it needs to be done from the command line. A easy to use web wallet will be available in the coming weeks.
Thanks for this.
The use case is a bit more advanced than what is there yet.
Users are not bitcoiners (though some may be), they are simple shareholders of a fractional asset (partnership, LLC, Ltd, Joint venture, etc). Many will not have any bitcoin but will see their dividend value in their local currency (or in bitcoin if they choose). If they choose to take a distribution, bitcoin will come out of their account and they will be paid through an exchange in their country.
All that is ancillary biz-dev work though.
This is to be just a cheap and friendly fractional asset front end web api (for the asset owners, not the asset creators).
Possibly a dumbed down counterparty wallet interface will work for much of this so when I can get a chance to pull against that we can start bolting on bits of code.
It may even make sense to set this endeavor up as such a fractional asset and give out shares to those that are working on it, as well as sell some for those that expect to capitalize on the effort as it takes shape.