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Etheropt, a decentralized options exchange built on Ethereum

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Re: Etheropt, a decentralized options exchange built on Ethereum

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This is awesome! I've been wondering when we were going to see some of these DAOs come online. (Assuming OP is author or author is reading) Have you written up/do you have any resources on writing a smart contract like this?

Seconded, very cool stuff

Re: Etheropt, a decentralized options exchange built on Ethereum

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This is awesome! I've been wondering when we were going to see some of these DAOs come online. (Assuming OP is author or author is reading) Have you written up/do you have any resources on writing a smart contract like this?

I am the author, and I think the best way to get started is by looking at existing contracts, which are generally written in Solidity, Ethereum's language for writing smart contracts. Here are a few examples that I found helpful:

- https://github.com/etherpot/contract/blob/master/app/contrac... - https://etherdice.io/#contract - https://ethereumpyramid.com/contract.html - And of course the main docs, http://solidity.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ (see also https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Solidity-Features)

Once you have a smart contract, it's a good idea to provide some interface to help people interact with it. There are a number of JS libraries to help you interact with Ethereum available at https://github.com/ethereumjs.

Re: Etheropt, a decentralized options exchange built on Ethereum

#5

This is awesome! I've been wondering when we were going to see some of these DAOs come online. (Assuming OP is author or author is reading) Have you written up/do you have any resources on writing a smart contract like this?

I am the author, and I think the best way to get started is by looking at existing contracts, which are generally written in Solidity, Ethereum's language for writing smart contracts. Here are a few examples that I found helpful: - https://github.com/etherpot/contract/blob/master/app/contrac... - https://etherdice.io/#contract - https://ethereumpyramid.com/contract.html - And of course the main docs, http://solidity.…

Please contact me using my email address or kwikiel at Gmail. I would like to ask you few question about feasibility and technical complexity of creating things on the ethereum

Re: Etheropt, a decentralized options exchange built on Ethereum

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post #6

Very interesting, I hope you are not in the United States. I doubt the CFTC would take too kindly to this especially since they are binary options. Good luck!

From the intro:

>Etheropt has no owner. Its entire operation is described and executed by an Ethereum smart contract.

Re: Etheropt, a decentralized options exchange built on Ethereum

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post #6

Very interesting, I hope you are not in the United States. I doubt the CFTC would take too kindly to this especially since they are binary options. Good luck!

The CFTC can eat one. Seriously, there's not a goddamn thing they will be able to do about DACs. Better call a hearing.

Re: Etheropt, a decentralized options exchange built on Ethereum

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post #6

Very interesting, I hope you are not in the United States. I doubt the CFTC would take too kindly to this especially since they are binary options. Good luck!

From the intro: >Etheropt has no owner. Its entire operation is described and executed by an Ethereum smart contract.

That smart contract was written by a person and they should realize that there might be legal repercussions in the US at least. I have a great interest in this space (I started a failed cryptocurrency options exchange myself) and I hope that it blossoms.

I would like to see regular puts and calls instead of binary options, the latter is ill-suited for hedging and really just a speculative instrument.

Re: Etheropt, a decentralized options exchange built on Ethereum

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post #8
post #6

Very interesting, I hope you are not in the United States. I doubt the CFTC would take too kindly to this especially since they are binary options. Good luck!

The CFTC can eat one. Seriously, there's not a goddamn thing they will be able to do about DACs. Better call a hearing.

It's funny to realize that a DAC can go on existing even after its creators may have been charged or imprisoned for breaking a law or regulation. I don't agree with the CFTC but I acknowledge their power.
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