I think many people who've already seen it feel it's just not quite there yet. Not to mention that most pairs have little or no real liquidity. I also don't like all the fees and that whole MLM feel it has with the whole affiliate thing. It's also not quite fast enough to compete with a centralized exchange. What we really need is the "quality" and liquidity of poloniex (when it's running "smoothly") in a stable and decentralized context. I've actually been sort of hopeful that EOS may be the platform that could finally facilitate the successful development of such an endeavor.
They need referrals as that helps in marketing to bring liquidity in the system. It's a chicken and egg problem that is why we need to support it so we can have a better decentralized exchange. Yeah its not yet there but its a very good start
Basically bts seems cool and useful on the outside but when you look deeper at it, you realize its just a complicated, low liquidity, faux-decentralized, scammers dream platform. Having a well designed and robust referral system wont garner new users, when bts doesn't excel at filling any niche role. It does a bunch of things in complicated clunky ways.
Attracting liquidity is the hardest part, and that's after they've gotten many of the other aspects mostly right.
Just look at the effort ERIS Exchange has gone through promoting their futures contracts over the past few years:
Also notice how many platform partners they have, and how far they go to make people feel "safe" using it. And look at the fees:
50 cents per side, per $100K NOTIONAL! That same size trade on poloniex (with all its issues and risks) at .15% ADD LIQUIDITY (not remove liquidity, which is even higher) would cost $150!
I think many people who've already seen it feel it's just not quite there yet. Not to mention that most pairs have little or no real liquidity. I also don't like all the fees and that whole MLM feel it has with the whole affiliate thing. It's also not quite fast enough to compete with a centralized exchange. What we really need is the "quality" and liquidity of poloniex (when it's running "smoothly") in a stable and decentralized context. I've actually been sort of hopeful that EOS may be the platform that could finally facilitate the successful development of such an endeavor.
They need referrals as that helps in marketing to bring liquidity in the system. It's a chicken and egg problem that is why we need to support it so we can have a better decentralized exchange. Yeah its not yet there but its a very good start
Interesting bitsharestalk thread on the subject here:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,23691.15.html
Attracting liquidity is the hardest part, and that's after they've gotten many of the other aspects mostly right.
Just look at the effort ERIS Exchange has gone through promoting their futures contracts over the past few years:
https://www.erisfutures.com/EE/Eris_Swap_Futures_Overview.pdf
Also notice how many platform partners they have, and how far they go to make people feel "safe" using it. And look at the fees:
50 cents per side, per $100K NOTIONAL! That same size trade on poloniex (with all its issues and risks) at .15% ADD LIQUIDITY (not remove liquidity, which is even higher) would cost $150!
https://www.erisfutures.com/fees
Any wonder why the really big traders are still mostly sticking to the much less expensive regulated trading exchanges?