Does anyone know of an exchange that lets me issue an asset with no fee? Or a fee on the order of $20 instead of >1BTC? I realize many of these fees were set when BTC were not this absurdly expensive, and having a fairly substantial fee discourages scammers (or at least scammers who aren't confident in their scams) but seriously, I'm not paying $400 to an exchange so that they can make charts and run shareholder polls, which cost them roughly nil.
Asset issuer fees of exchanges that I know about:
CryptoStocks: 2BTC
BitFunder: 5BTC
MPEx: 30BTC just to sign up. I didn't look further than that.
PicoStocks: 50BTC
Havelock: I don't think they let you issue anything without a lot of discussions with them first.
EDIT: I forgot BTC-TC: 5BTC
Are there other asset exchanges I haven't found? Do any of them have low/no fees for asset issuers? Transaction fees are just fine. Do we have distributed asset exchanges/colored coins yet? Is Open Transactions where I want to be looking?
Should I just open up a forum post that says "Hey guys, give me all your BTC for my project and I'll just remember who you are"?
What do you figure is the point of having an "asset" for the creation of which you paid $20? What is this, the movie-and-a-burger asset?
It's an honest question, even if it may not seem that way to you. Think: you want people to bother reading your reports, you want to write these reports, you want all the complex infrastructure of shareholders etc for what exactly? A ticket to a shitty game?
