Wonder if we could do it like this:
Sidenote: Yesterday I made a substantial (for me) purchase at Tigerdirect.com using BTC. I want to support merchants like this as much as possible to encourage adoption, and I needed some parts, so it all came together. What I found really cool about the transaction (as compared to the many I've done before in BTC with other online retailers) was that it could send information to bitcoin-qt. Basically, I click on pay, it opens bitcoin-qt with the amount and the address all filled in, and I simply hit send! It was too frakken easy! ...which made me think of the LRM trading problem
Trading site has a database of BTC wallet addresses and bonds associated with addresses, and record of values.
Trading site holds no BTC so LRM is not transmitting anything.
With only that data, wouldn't it be possible to use a system similar to TD to send BTC between users? It wouldn't be full auto for buying, in that I couldn't leave a bid in and wait for the price to drop, but even in full manual mode, it's better than nothing (it could email me, making for semi-auto mode).
Example of selling:
The site knows how many bonds I have listed to sell and at what price.
If someone wishes to buy, the site will go through the transaction with them, and watch for BTC being deposited in my listed wallet before updating my bond status.
Tha's the easy part, and that's because already done in my test.
Example of buying:
The site knows how many bonds I wish to buy and at what price, but has no idea of how many bitcoins I have - it doesn't need to.
I put in a buy order. The site generates an amount of BTC (with last 4 digits random) and offers the option to do as TD did, that is, load up bitcoin-qt with the relevant info, or allow me to manually perform the transaction.
Bitcoin-qt loads up and I hit send. Or I send manually.
Site watches receiving wallet address. As soon as the BTC is verified, it makes an adjustment to my bond number, as well as to the sellers.
For the admin, the site can generate a list of addresses and amounts to be paid out on div day (in an easy to use format for when LR is absent).
Also, with all of this data, making plots should be pretty simple.
Can anyone here do this?
What do you think LR? Unless you have something planned, does this get around the transmission problem, yet still keep things fluid and simple enough?
When you want to buy maybe there is no info about you in the system, no btc address or mail, yo set a bid with your mail and if any sellet wants to accept it we must block this bid and send you a mail with the seller address, then you have some time (hours) to make the payment. After that the system check the blockchain, the same way where selling, and when the payment is made update seller's shares and create new buyer address and store shares or update the amount if buyer already exists.
As you say there must be a manual as localbitcoin does. I can't figure an auto mode to buying side.
Regards