There are so many other, better ways to solve that problem which don't involve an unnecessary transfer of wealth to OpenCoin Inc. Also, I wouldn't even call it a solution: it makes opening accounts costly, which directly hampers scalability and eliminates entire classes of use cases. That's a weakness, not an advantage.
There may very well be better ways. But creating a distributed p2p exchange protocol is probably a lot harder to do than some of the people raising funds and making promises would have you believe.
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There are so many other, better ways to solve that problem which don't involve an unnecessary transfer of wealth to OpenCoin Inc. Also, I wouldn't even call it a solution: it makes opening accounts costly, which directly hampers scalability and eliminates entire classes of use cases. That's a weakness, not an advantage.
There may very well be better ways. But creating a distributed p2p exchange protocol is probably a lot harder to do than some of the people raising funds and making promises would have you believe.
I am well aware. I am in this space myself: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=280292.0
Wow that looks interesting.