I think in order to get volume into decentralized markets someone needs to make a way that a buyer can purchase anything on ebay using a plugin where someone would purchase for them and charge a commission. Automatically populating the markets.
I love that idea. Love.
Also take a look to affiliate programm in an exchange.
Yeah that is the beauty of BitBay.
If it catches on as we hope then it will be perfect timing for the revolution coming to the stock market.
Overstock is getting closer and closer to "issuing history's first public blockchain security"
Others will follow suit once they realize the potential.
Brokerage houses will have to retrofit their ways, but what they won't realize until it hits them way too late is that David has created a tool that will give these new blockchain stocks and their investors the ability to trustlessly trade them without the need for a brokerage house at all.
I hate to say it but overstock is spending all this money to jump through the SEC regulations, and they've forked out a lot of money into a supposedly revolutionary "tØ" brokerage house platform.
I understand they want to be legit with SEC, but I don't see their platform holding any major relevance in the future of blockchain stock markets. Their platform will be forced to make profits and when this transition is complete, investors will have a choice between brokerage house platforms that charge a fee or protocols like BitBay that doesn't require any fee (except what the counterparties want to charge eachother!!). The choice will be easy to make especially because BitBay is trustless.
I'm sure they are going to try to regulate the purchase and selling of these stocks inside the brokerage houses because well... the SEC crooks have to eat too and feel all important inside
But again, they really don't know what they are dealing with here. There will be loopholes around these regulations via blockchain backed notaries/ colored coins.
The floodgates are about to open and BitBay will be able to provide it with peace of mind that the SEC can only cry about because we don't need them anymore!
Check out overstocks latest update here
http://www.coindesk.com/overstock-raise-30-million-blockchain-stock-offering/