How about 0% fees or even -1% fees?
To bring volume up and spread the word?
That is not the problem, the problem is trust.
Possibly a open ledger system with escrow would address that main issue.
Otherwise looks like a great project.
the issue is 2fold,
Trust is a big thing, but its not the main issue, plenty of clearnet exchanges managed to run away with customer funds, and lately cryptsy has implemented capital controls, they are about to pull a gox. ExchangeD.i2p has been endorsed/vouched for by the dev teams of Anoncoin and Dogecoindark
But, IMO the big thing is that marketing has been weak, nobody has heard of Exchanged.I2P and even if they had most traders don't really care enough about privacy to install i2p and trade anonymously.
I'm not bankrolled by some VC Angel guys to where I can pay out negative trading fee's. And really the fee's are not whats holding back trading volume.
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So here's what I'm working on to get things rolling.
1) Im running a testnet of trade API and a sample trading bot.
2) We are looking for market makers to fill up the orderbooks
As far as trust goes, escrow trading is a high latency thing, that doesn't really work for the type of service we are running, but...
3) I'm coding a localbitcoins clone as the next big feature release. this will allow for multisig transactions so if anyone want to buy/sell Bitcoin for Cryptocurrencies or fiat. They will be able to do that anonymously with minimal risk.
4) We recently got approved to be on the I2Prouter homepage so hopefully that will allow for greater visibility, we are working on some promotional material once that happens.
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but hey, im alway open to new ideas, if you have any suggestion i would love to hear them. Best place to chat is in our irc channel: irc2p in #exchange
but feel free to sugest them here.
Outside of bitcointalk.org I don't have a clearnet presence so if anyone is interested in helping out with getting the word out let me know.
If your a marketmaker or interested in marketmaking, we are offering 0.0% fee accounts.
will add the channel ...
im interested to see what comes of this ...
its an interesting concept - and have looked at a similar concept fo granite ... ive found though - the implementation is a lot more indepth and compicated than teh concept ...
just joined the channel - aaand no one is on ...
im adding it to my 'regular' channels ...
#crysx