I will definitely look further into this, and research a bit more on current regulations, as it is rather vague for me atm.
I use shapeshift specifically when I need an emergency conversion from one coin to another. I dont use it when I am trading coins. While trading I would prefer to sell them during the bull run for USDT and then hold the USDT till price of the coins drop and then use that same USDT to buy a bigger amount of the coin.
I have personally used both shapeshift and changelly and I never had any problems with them - even though there is an unresolved scam accusation against changelly here for which they received negative trust.
@AdolfinWolf,
I can suggest a few pointers for your idea:
1. A chart where I can view all trades and possible profit/loss of trading them. Though that seems more like something that a full time exchange would have.
2. A P2P marketplace as well for Fiat<>crypto based exchanges. Something that is lacking on many other platform but risky as well.
1. I have seen charts on other exchanges that kind of function like Shapeshift etc, and i feel like it really is a hit or miss. (eg, litebit.eu's implementation.) If implemented correctly it could indeed be a nice addition.
2. I personally am also missing an exchange where i would be able to simply cash out bitcoin -> paypal, (without using KYC), but i feel like there are probably a lot of AML laws that prohibit this very thing without KYC. So i really doubt that this is possible without the implementation of KYC, but who knows.
The market isn't much saturated to say, but the most popular are now established and with a good marketing done. But in the end, there is always a spot to make a new one. Its success will come from how you market the product what do you give different from the existing ones.
Just posting this two to give an idea how it can be done differently
https://evercoin.comhttps://godex.io/Evercoin.com isn't available yet? (At least not on desktop?)
Godex looks pretty good, except for the fact that they say they take .5% commision, but when you calculate what the actual price of BTC -> ETH is, it becomes obvious that they're adding another ~1-2% to that 0.5%. Am i missing something here?
You Get (Expected): 24.09929812 ETH
Expected exchange rate: 1 BTC ≈ 24.22743529 ETH
Fee included (0.5%): 0.12813717 ETH
Actual exchange rate as per Coinmarketcap ≈ 24,60085388 ETH
24,60085388 - 24.22743529 / 24.22743529 * 100 ≈ 1.6% ontop of the already existing 0.5% fee.
Seems like most other instant exchanges (Shapeshift) also do this. I guess it's either due to volatility/they want to make some more $. Interesting.