Open Air Exchange - FTC Meetup
-
Hey guys,
How about real world meetups? We can set them up on meetup.com. When there we can attract sponsors to provide a little food and drink, it will be organised locally.
Then we can have p2p open air trading in a nice public space where people can feel safe. Maybe get some lending going too, though one step at a time.
I will do a London one.
-
Where abouts in London…?
-
Shoreditch probably as most of my venue and connections are there. I have some a couple in the west end but not many and it’s expensive out that way. Will try and get somewhere for free. Will be nice in the summer as well.
-
Sounds like a good idea, [i]The Feathercoin Convention[/i] :)
-
Interesting idea. Expressing interest.
-
I’m glad this is being brought up! I started a meetup project when I first got over here… it didn’t gain traction so it became a back-burner item. I would host one here in the US-Midwest.
-
I would think that team Skype sessions would be more realistic. Invite me on Skype my username is Fresh-rest, we will setup Skype meetings for various teams at various times.
-
I’ll talk to some friends about this. There’s people I know who know how to organize efficiently for something like this.
-
Nice, skype also seems like a nice idea, but how do you manage 50+ persons talking? :P
-
Could have IRC chat with breakout sessions of small groups.
Could turn in to Feathercoin Speed dating lol… now there’s an idea!
-
Wow this is an awesome idea! If I lived anywhere near london id show up.
-
I think for now Skype would be a great idea, that way our friends from across the pond could join in :) IRC sounds good ChrisJ
-
I am organising one, it’s been decided lol. We can host them simultaneously and do a live webcast with big screens :)
I am thinking of branding it as Bitcoin/Crypto or Bitcoin/Feathercoin/Litecoin meetup so that it attracts more people. This should be about promoting the idea itself and I notice I got a bit of interest from the Trollbox last night when I put the idea forward.
C
-
[quote name=“justabitoftime” post=“6981” timestamp=“1369634879”]
I’m glad this is being brought up! I started a meetup project when I first got over here… it didn’t gain traction so it became a back-burner item. I would host one here in the US-Midwest.
[/quote]I’m game.
-
I would help if anyone interested in upstate NY area lets get something together
-
Guys, I think Google Hangouts in Google+ is designed to handle a lot more people than skype is.
-
I think this is a pretty awesome idea. Why wait for BTC-e to set up a FTC/USD when you can just take things into your own hands. Power to the people!
-
[quote name=“Chaoskampf” post=“16072” timestamp=“1371525610”]
I think this is a pretty awesome idea. Why wait for BTC-e to set up a FTC/USD when you can just take things into your own hands. Power to the people!
[/quote]I have since found out it’s called open outcry but apparently it’s not that easy to do because you just get a lot of noise and if you want to be a market maker you are taking a big risk and still have to deal with all the settlement.
-
[quote name=“chrisj” post=“16142” timestamp=“1371559327”]
[quote author=Chaoskampf link=topic=858.msg16072#msg16072 date=1371525610]
I think this is a pretty awesome idea. Why wait for BTC-e to set up a FTC/USD when you can just take things into your own hands. Power to the people!
[/quote]I have since found out it’s called open outcry but apparently it’s not that easy to do because you just get a lot of noise and if you want to be a market maker you are taking a big risk and still have to deal with all the settlement.
[/quote]Could you curtail the noise/confusion by having multiple people working for the exchange? If it’s one or two people trying to run it then I see how it would get unmanageable very quickly (assuming there’s enough interest in the first place). If there’s 5 or 6 exchange workers and you set up some formalized system for placing orders then maybe it would be more under control? Also, distributing the market-making responsibility among a group of people might help ease the burden.
-
Any tentative dates sorted? I’m keen whilst over from Australia and in the UK.
