Fully decentralized exchanges are idealistically, well... "ideal", but they come with their fair share of problems as well. What I have done was to solve the major problems of a centralized exchange.
The funds stay with the client at all times, hence the server and centralized agent has no possession not control of the client's funds at any time.
"IMO thus dangerous as we head into totalitarianism and government control over choke points."
We are not heading into government control over choke points, we've been there since way before you were born. The solution is to ensure that the choke points aren't fatal or unnecessarily relied on for the operation of the project as a whole.
If the government confiscates my servers, they don't get your money because the servers never had it in the first place, unlike Mt. Gox, Lehman, Countrywide, or Man Financial.
And importantly, UltraCoin is NOT an altcoin. It's a derivative solution that works directly with the Bitcoin blockchain. Unfortunately there is an altcoin that also goes by the name Ultracoin (with a ticker of UTC), but that is not me. My venture's goal is to become the facilitator and gate keep of value transfer. As Google is the gatekeeper of information on the Internet, UltraCoin is to be the gate keeper of value - all value, not just financial and investment. The other, like-named product is an actual coin or which whose goal I'm not aware of.
UltraCoin is an innovation to the strategic application of value manipulation to the Bitcoin blockchain, not an altcoin, so should the moderators return this thread to its original position?
He appears to be putting market clearing in the mining nodes. And perhaps ticker feeds for common financial instruments to enable algorithmic escrow when it can be.
This is partial centralization (as shown on one of his slides showing the middle ground between Mt.Gox and fully decentralized exchange) and IMO thus dangerous as we head into totalitarianism and government control over choke points. He apparently argues this is worthwhile for its benefits.
Also he announcing an altcoin in the wrong forum. Moderators should move this to the Altcoin forum.
Edit: appears this thread was moved from Bitcoin Discussion to Altcoin forum while I was posting.