I had to register just to ask this. Can you guys please fix or address the decentralized exchange in Counterwallet? It's nigh unusable at the moment.

It is possible to tie a sellers coins up for 3+ hours and sometimes more, if a person buys an order and then logs out of Counterwallet, the BTCpay will simply remain in an unconfirmed state and hold the sellers coin/asset in escrow indefinitely, until it cancels. The only option for the seller is to cancel his order at a fee, or wait an indeterminate amount of time for the order to expire. This is completely unfair and opens the door to serious gaming, which is already happening.

At least one seller has been gaming the market and indefinitely tying up other sellers coins. He lists his own XCP at 15% higher than poloniex and bter, anyone who sells under him gets their orders "bought" by him, and held in escrow so they are off the order list entirely, leaving only his inflated coins to buy. Whoever does this has 2-3 BTC wallets and has been holding other sellers funds via this logout method for days now, while he trades his own BTC/XCP to himself to distort the market value and try to catch some noob willing to pay too much.

Please address this issue, or make a public announcement that the exchange should not be used until this can be amended, because all it does is cause pure frustration and ties my coins up in limbo for hours unless I pay to cancel my order. I still have 0.1 BTC floating aruond somewhere that hasn't been returned from a 4 day old order. Of all the orders I've put up, only 6% have actually gone through. 94% have expired. It's ridiculous and should not be open in its current state.

All this exchange will do is scare off new people if that's their first experience with counterwallet. I've already seen 5-6 new people complaining about the exchange and about this glitch since I started reading chat a lot, just over a week ago. If the userbase picks up and newcomers think they can do arbitrage or something and place orders once they see that they've "sold" their coins, there will be some pissed off folk. I really like counterparty don't get me wrong, the exchange is just busted as hell and being gamed by 1-2 jerks.