Will it be possible to peg shares to the dollar? I would very much like to see that feature.
What?
I think he means rather than having prices set in BTC, have them set in USD using mt.gox rates or something. So I would say "my shares cost $6," your site would check mtgox to see that the average-weighted price is (or something like that), and if anyone wanted to by my shares they would pay with $6 worth of BTC.
meh - i'd keep USD (or EUR or whatever else for that matter) out of it!
Should I ever choose to issue shares, I'd really like the idea to tie the price to the USD/EUR/GOLD/SILVER.
As my business is one of "Real Life", I would probably issue shares to raise funds to pay for programming, marketing - maybe even to stock up on some goods.
So if I sell 1000 @ 1 and the BTC/USD goes to shit, I'm ahead - but what about my investors?
And if the BTC/USD rises, stocks become "cheaper", thus more attractive to trade.
All the while, if you would want to trade the BTC/USD, investing on GLBSE is not the way to do it, so there's no reason not to take some variance out of it, imho.
Maybe I would even like to have each "share" represent an ounce of silver/BTC?
Of course I could (well I coulnd't, but someone could) build a bot to calculate the current NAV of the share and place orders accordingly, but I think this feature would be worthwile for a lot of people, especiall if it's supported directly from the exchange.
just my 0.00000002