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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Securing contingent claims
by
johanatan
on 29/06/2011, 06:09:21 UTC

 
But, different brokers will have different margin requirements.  Surely those won't always be 1:1.


If you allow margin trades, then you reintroduce counterparty risk. My main goal here was to find a trading system
which eliminated counterparty risk and the need for legal or reputational enforcement.
I see.  That does sound like a better system indeed (especially with the borderless nature of bitcoin).

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Anyways, there is still a tax on margin requirements because you can't use bonds to back your trade.
As you point out, however, allowing margin trading does reduce the tax.

I'm a bit confused about how your system handles both bonds and 'contingent blocks [aka options/futures]' and the relation between the two (if any).