What the cryptocurrency ecosystem needs to realize, is that the protection
of the customer must be foremost. BTC is a great system for sellers and
receivers, however there is very little protection for the buyer
and Caveat emptor is not going to work as a scapegoat any more. It is time
that businesses not only exchanges but payment processors, shopping sites,
wallet services, etc needs to start standardizing proper security
framework.
What we need is an active change in the cryptocurrency industry. A
formation of a independent decentralized certifying agency, that can audit,
check and provide policy and guidelines for cryptocurrency based
businesses. It should be self regulated and highly transparent and should
only work with business.
What this body would do, is have a checklist of requirement that each
business has to fulfill in terms of IT Security, Customer service policy,
accounting and book keeping, Tax policy (according to each country),
Independent review of the Code being implemented, Approved hardware, and
physical security and inspection. Basis which the business is given an
accredit score.
The scoring system should be such, that it allows small start ups to
improve score and not reflect negatively. There should be guidelines that
businesses can follow to gain higher scores if they decide to implement
those guidelines, the most important thing that the body needs to do, is to
promote new businesses to start and help them improve on Security, Customer
service and Accounting. These are the three fundamental thing that needs to
be checked and audited. Protecting customer by implementing a rating
system is what's needed at this time.
I dont know if this is viable but i think it may work.
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Kelly John Rose
On Saturday, March 22, 2014,
wrote: Message du 22/03/14 17:28 De : "Troy Benjegerdes" If you think you need 'money' to write a better exchange, then you are just another crypto-snake-oil salesman, and are WORSE than Gox, who at least gave us a good example of failure.
However, if you want to put your code (and failures) where your mouth is, I'll give you free room and board if you show me good code, and an honest effort to learn from failure. Nowhere in this exchange is money involved.
Most of the guys willing to create a new exchange are figuring they need to pay a team of professional C programmers if they want their system working without hacks, because lately 90% of coders barely get through with Python, lol.
Having worked on some complex banking and accounting systems before, I know there is a lot more to the equation than simple coding up some crappy ruby code and putting fixes in place whenever it doesn't quite do what you want.
Financial cryptography is expensive to do mostly because there is a strong need to not only implement good code, but also make sure the engineering is done correctly the first time and that it has the expensive physical security to back it up.
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