Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by mmsmatt 3108 days ago
Counterparty risk is through the roof.

I tried moving some prediction market contracts on US Election Day, couldn’t trade anything due to traffic volume. This feels familiar.

Decades of technical and legal work went into our stock exchanges, the bitcoin bucket shops are a few generations behind. It doesn’t matter until suddenly it does.

1 comments

This will help when CME and CBOE get their contracts launched, right? They can handle the real life traffic for such thing as crude oil. I do not think the bitcoin volume would phase them very much...
Bit coin is a tiny market compared to real markets.
Exactly why it will work much better when the real boys come in to town :)