Quote from: dacoinminster on December 12, 2013, 08:35:36 PM

Quote from: DarkEmi on December 12, 2013, 08:33:46 AM

Hello guys,

As most of the people here I got really interested by mastercoin features in the recent months, however the google doc "order book" is not an very simple solution to trade mastercoin, and I feel that neither is the buymastercoin website which for many reason seems like the official recommended solution.

Thats why we have started developing an "real" exchange (where people can set up their own prices) for mastercoins / bitcoins which should be ready hopefully in a few days. Most of the development is done and we are just testing the system right now. So until the distributed exchange is there we will be offering a convenient way to trade mastercoin, hopefully helping in the price discovery process and proposing a fairer price than the current easy to use solutions.

Ps : I am not in any way related to the mastercoin fundation or do have any mastercoin. Also note that we are doing this project outside of any official mastercoin bounty.

Sweet

Centralized exchanges will probably stick around even after the decentralized exchange comes out, because they'll offer a lot faster order fulfillment for people like day-traders. Plus, they'll be able to integrate with the distributed exchange.

Quote from: ElDido on December 12, 2013, 10:22:36 PM

Hi there,

Just taking a quick break to answer a few questions about the exchange DarkEmi and I are working on.

The exchange will be a new one dedicated to BTC / MSC trading exclusively for now.

We hope this few things will help you trust us: our names are no secret, we are operating BTCOracle.com for almost a year now, making combined payouts of 1000+ bitcoins and our main focus is on security and safety of users' funds. We already worked hard to make this project a reality and I'm sure everyone will see it's far from a cheap attempt to grab a few coins and run. We're in it for the long run. If you're still not convinced, I'm sure the return on experience from our first users will.

To ensure a sustainable business model, we'll charge fees on trades, as most exchanges do.
Since the MSC ecosystem is still a bit young, and we want to limit every potential risk of a theft, all withdrawals will be processed by hand to begin with. Once more tools become available, we'll automate more and more. To prevent the risk of being overwhelmed by lots of small withdrawal requests, we'll also charge a small fixed fee for each withdrawal.

Ultimately, we hope to offer an easy, secure and cheap way to buy and sell MSC until the distributed exchange is fully operational. We love the idea of Mastercoin and want to bring our small contribution to help make it all it can be.

With the help of the community, I'm confident this can be a nice tool for Mastercoin.

All advices and questions are welcomed.

Hey there this is addressed to -DarkEmi or anybody else intending to build a centralized exchange for Mastercoin to help market liquidity.
I have been following Mastercoin ever since I saw the video about JR talking about the second bitcoin whitepaper earlier this year, I even contacted him to introduce myself on linkedin. I believed in the project and I still do, it was a no-brainer for me so I invested heavily in it. Also with a little vision, I knew that centralized exchanges would be critical as initial support while the decentralized exchange application was still in development. It might even continue to be useful as ongoing support or as a source for information for new users finding out about Mastercoin in general. In light of that point of view I decide to establish the following web properties with the intent of building a nice guified node.js centralized application:

http://www.trademastercoin.com/
http://www.trademastercoins.com/
https://twitter.com/Trademastercoin
http://www.linkedin.com/company/trademastercoin
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Trademastercoin/494568007306146?ref=bf

Benefits
1) The branding is uniform across the board. Making discovery and memorization easy
2) The names works well from a branding /search discovery combination, this translates to more and more perpetually free traffic as Mastercoin becomes more popular.

Current Specifics on SEO:
1) Exact match domains for the keywords "trade mastercoin" or "trademastercoin" will make it pretty easy to maintain top position on the first page of google for a popular search term, this means free perpetual traffic
2) currently page rank no 4 for keyword discovery : "trade mastercoin"--this can be improved with little seo work.
3) http://www.trademastercoin.com/ and all social media pages are ranked on the first page of google for the keyword: "trademastercoin" (no spaces).

Check both keywords in 2 and 3 against the url using this tool : http://whatpageofsearchamion.com

So to the right buyer, I will give away the domain and all social media pages:

http://www.trademastercoin.com/
http://www.trademastercoins.com/
https://twitter.com/Trademastercoin
http://www.linkedin.com/company/trademastercoin
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Trademastercoin/494568007306146?ref=bf
Ill even throwing a freebie domain if satisfied with the offer:
http://www.sellmybitcoin.com/

All these purchases where made with the intent of developing centralized services for Mastercoin, but my focus has shifted to development of decentralized applications (exchange /gaming), so holding on to them when someone could put them to better use does not make any sense. The right thing to do is to offer them to someone at the right price. Please PM me with your questions if you have any or best offers. Will be accepting either Mastercoin or bitcoin for these properties. i'll will give you an email to contact me at these domains to prove that I do own them. Thanks.