Quote from: xeverse on April 26, 2013, 08:50:46 PM

Quote from: boomerlu on April 26, 2013, 01:23:35 AM

My personal suggestions for increased liquidity - rebate for adding liquidity (ie maker/taker)

That's how it was done on the bitfloor. The spread was virtually zero all the time. Very effective..

Such a maker/taker fee is similar to what Intersango has been doing - the fee three times higher if you take an offer in the order book instead of making a new one. Bitfloor went even further and made the fee for market makers negative.

I must say I don't like the clearing fee of BUK3, even though it is small. I hope that will not be a pattern for future use.

And a final comment: The leverage is getting a bit low. I know that is part of a strategy of reducing counterparty risk, but the only way of eliminating that is removing leverage altogether, and that would make ICBIT uninteresting. We are unfortunately moving in that direction. I would rather have a slightly larger counterparty risk, and then be able to trade at 1:4 or 1:5. I think that the combination of high fees and low leverage hurts the volume at icbit!