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Review on BitShares by Son Hueng Min
Centralization Compromises Privacy In order to have even the slightest bit of…
Centralization Compromises Privacy
In order to have even the slightest bit of privacy, the exchange functionality needs to be divided among hundreds of parties who are unlikely to collude to compromise identity. This is not economically practical today, because the exchange order book creates market incentives that naturally tend toward centralization in just a few exchanges with the vast majority of market share.
Pros
- At just a few cents per trade*, BitShares is one of the cheapest exchanges around. Other exchanges charge a percentage of your transaction volume. For a $1000 trade on BitStamp you will pay $5 vs less than $0.01 (Jan 2015) to make the same trade on the BitShares exchange. The more traditional exchanges like E-Trade or Scottrade charge over $5 per trade. Taking these price comparisons into consideration, clearly it doesn’t get any cheaper than BitShares.
Cons
- The bitshare community is not big.
