http://nashx.com/A more-or-less decentralized exchange, making use of mutually assured destruction and the nash equilibrium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibriumLooks promising.
Why was it made?
Because nobody wants to send their money first.
The basic concept
Traders risk money for destruction in each other's hands whenever they get into a deal.
So, when one sends the money first, it doesn't benefit the other to just take it and run.
How is it different than MTGOX and BTC-E
You are anonymous. No personal or bank information.
You trade directly person-to-person however you want.
You keep your money in your wallet, and not with an exchange.
How it works
Make an account.
Add funds to risk.
Make an offer, or take an offer.
Chat to arrange the details.
Make the transactions.
Release or destroy risked funds.
When your fund is destroyed, you will immediately see a transaction id as a proof of destruction.
How are risked funds destroyed?
NashX literally destroy them by making a transaction from our wallet to our wallet with minimum possible possible transaction amount with funds to be destroyed as the additional transaction fee.
So the funds go to miners who process these transactions.
Why don't we keep it? It gives us a bad incentive to make fake accounts and destroy deals
Why don't we give it to charity? It gives them a bad incentive to make fake accounts and destroy deals
Why don't we blackhole it? The process to generate one of those addresses that traders can trust that is truly a blackhole is a difficult task in itself, a process similar to mining. We would take this path if we could give each destroy fund a blackhole address of its own quickly, but it's not.
Finally, we tried to come up with many other ways such as distrubinting to active traders as well as somehow adding randomizations to the distrubiton process and what not, but all of these other solutions potentially give us control to mess with it, or gives some third-party bad incentive to come destroy deals on NashX.
Who sends the money first?
It doesn't matter, so it's up to the traders to decide/volunteer/negotiate because nobody has the incentive to change their mind after receiving money.
However, it is advisable that whoever does not have any previous records of making trades send the money first until the trader has built some reputation on NashX by making trades. Reputation can be checked by viewing the deals they've engaged.
Important to keep in mind
The amount you risk should be twice the amount you're trading in order to keep the deal in Nash equilibrium.
If I want to trade 10 BTC, does that mean I have to risk 20 BTC?
No, you can simply risk 2 BTC, and trade 1 BTC at a time 10 times. This doesn't mean you have to make 10 separate offers. When you make an offer risking 2 BTC to trade 10 BTC, it is implied that you will make ten 1 BTC transactions going back and forth with your trader.
Some details
You can add/withdraw funds you can risk into deals (8 confirmations to add, instant withdraw)
Your offers will expire after 7 days.
You will receive an email and a popup notification when someone takes your offer.
You will receive a popup notificatoin when someone messages you.
There is a little bit of transaction fee to withdraw your risk funds from you account to cover the Bitcoin and Litecoin sending fees. This currently set a little high to cover the cost of operation.
There is a minimum amount for withdrawing your Bitcoins and Litecoins.
You can make offers, and delete offers, but once someone takes your offer, it cannot be deleted.
Everything, including how much risk funds you have in your account, as well as the offers you're making, and deals you've made, and messages you've sent in those deals are availble publicly for people to see and guage your reputation before they decide to take your deal or not.
How does it make money?
I'm not concerned about that at the moment, There are some fees for withdrawing risk funds from the account, but that covers regular Bitcoin and Litecoin fees. So, right now it doesn't make any money. I just want to see if people will start using it. That way, I can makes trades on it too. After all, I made it because I'd like trade on it.
Once it gains significant traction, NashX may do one or more of the following to continue to provide its services: 1. Ads. 2. Monthly Fee. 3. Small fee to take an offer by the offer taker. 4. Higher fees for adding/withdrawing risk funds from your account. These are the only ways where no bad incentive is given to anyone which may disturb the Nash equilibirum for traders.
It may be sold for some amount of money. Feel free to make me an offer.