You deposit, say one bitcoin with the server hosting the exchange, and then put in your bid or offer.
When the bids and offers are matched and both parties agree the exchange begins directly between the clients multi crypto currency wallets but only one bitcoin (or equivalent in lite coins) at a time alternating between clients. After each one bitcoin transaction in one direction is confirmed the equivalent litecoin transaction in the opposite direction is initiated. This is done automatically by the client wallets.
If either client stops the transaction at any point the exchange holds the deposit to even things up if necessary.
If you want to increase the increment of exchange you can put a higher deposit but apart from the deposits all currency exchange is directly between the clients.
This is only suitable for crypto currencies not fiat.
Topic: P2P crypto currency only exchange (Read 351 times)
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