Wow so I'm starting to wake up more and more to the possibilities with Wallstreet opening up to trading stocks on the blockchain.
Overstock will lead the way...
http://www.coindesk.com/overstocks-blockchain-stock-will-begin-trading-december/So this should create all sorts of advantages for stockmarket traders.
1) Slippage potentially minimized
2) Commission fee's minimized
3) Naked short selling minimized
Yet what's really caught my interest is how the ownership of stock shares will be stored.
I mean it shouldn't be any different than how a typical cryptocurrency stores it's values right? The owner actually holds in possession of the stocks on his blockchain wallet.
If it isn't set up that way yet for Overstock, I'm sure it eventually will.
This will cause a huge decline in brokerage houses that 'hold' your portfolio in their 'middleman' possession, and rightfully so... It's 'yours' after all!
So point being is that I don't see why we won't have a future where traders trade their shares like crypto currently does with exchanges like bittrex and polo.
Yet here's the kicker, with Halo, now David can add a whole new paradigm to the equation.
Traders will be able to trade freely and trustlessly any stock they want for any stock, fiat, or token of value they own.
I don't see exchanges like polo or bittrex being able to add stocks into their list of markets anytime soon. The existing brokerage houses of wall street will fight tooth and nail over that. They will buy up the SEC so fast with red tape that I just don't see it possible in any quick manner.
Yet with BitBay, it's decentralized, and can't be regulated since it's not a business and especially because it's not for profit.
So even though BitBay doesn't have the current crypto traders on board realizing that they can trustlessly buy and sell any crypto for any crypto without having to go through a 3rd party escrow or exchange, I think that wall street waking up will be a different story.
For example, if Mutual fund A wants to liquidate their 5% ownership of stock XYZ (for what ever reason) they could somewhat use their same chatbox channels to spread the word and once they find a buyer, they could literally sell securely through BitBay at a 0% slippage and commission fee.
The possibilities are endless! Since all this will be after the peg, BitBay will not only turn into a great hedging tool, but also a leveraging tool as well. And again, without having to front a 3rd party brokerage house the funds!
Man I can't wait to watch how Overstocks experiment works out in December!