<story><title>Overstock.com Assembles Coders to Create a Bitcoin-Like Stock Market</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/10/overstock-com-assembles-coders-build-bitcoin-like-stock-market/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alphonse23</author><text>This is sort of the idea I&amp;#x27;ve been waiting to come out of the bitcoin universe for some time now. A decentralized stock exchange seems like an obvious killer application for bitcoin. Though, the only thing I don&amp;#x27;t like about it is counterpart. Was never a fan of them, nor open transactions...&lt;p&gt;Why go to the SEC? I feel like the advantage of doing something like this would be the ability to build a trading exchange without any authority over looking it.. I&amp;#x27;d say that&amp;#x27;s what&amp;#x27;s wrong with the current system (NYSE,NASDAQ,etc).</text></comment>
<story><title>Overstock.com Assembles Coders to Create a Bitcoin-Like Stock Market</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/10/overstock-com-assembles-coders-build-bitcoin-like-stock-market/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bobjordan</author><text>This is great.  Patrick Byrne is doing a great service here. Development of crypto-security tools being pushed by an already successful publicly traded company adds instant credibility to the project and will lead many more successful business leaders to give it closer inspection, sooner.</text></comment>