---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Thomas H. Greco, Jr. <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 8:58 PM Subject: Commercial Trade Exchange Architecture and Operations To: <[email protected]> A Conversation with Chip Davis and Charlie Davis of the Moxey trade network This newsletter edition contains a single item, one of great importance to the emerging process of direct credit clearing as an adjunct to conventional money payments. ------------------------------ Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/92e9e89b3675/commercial-trade-exchange-architecture-and-operations?e=686d597d8c> . *Commercial Trade Exchange Architecture and Operations—A Conversation with Chip Davis and Charlie Davis* *Thomas H. Greco, Jr.* Recently, I came across an article about what seems to be a significant development in the commercial trade exchange industry. Published on February 15, 2018, the article, *TradeAuthority rebrands as Moxey with new digital currency, national expansion plans* <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=f80e3dffd7&e=686d597d8c>, tells about the expansion and rebranding of a commercial trade exchange heretofore known as *TradeAuthority.* Operating for the past several years in the Gulf Coast region of the southern United States, TradeAuthority has developed along lines somewhat different from most other trade exchange companies. I’ve had some peripheral knowledge of TradeAuthority for a long time but after reading the article I decided it was time for me to reach out to its founder, Chip Davis, with the intention of gaining a more detailed picture of how they operate and their plans for further development and expansion. The company, now named Moxey <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=c47f98b5d2&e=686d597d8c>, is a network of 14 autonomous member-owned local trade exchanges, member ownership being a unique feature in the commercial trade exchange industry. The key players in the Moxey enterprise are Chip Davis, founder of TradeAuthority and current Executive Vice President of Moxey, Charlie Davis, President of Moxey <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=6f7793652a&e=686d597d8c>, and Warren Sager, Moxey Vice President of Operations. *Some Key Questions* In my message to Chip Davis, I posed the following questions: - What degree of autonomy do the various (14) exchanges in your network have? - Is it possible for a member in one exchange to buy/sell directly with a member of another exchange in the network? Does your platform provide that functionality or does the trade need to be pre-arranged with brokers in the two exchanges? - Is there a single Moxey ledger for the entire network or does each exchange have its own? If the latter, how are accounts reconciled among the exchanges, and how often? - Do you participate in UC? [UC is “Universal Currency,” a credit currency that many trade exchanges use to enable their members to buy goods and services from members of different trade exchanges.] - What are the factors you use to allocate lines of credit? How are they weighted? Are all exchanges in the network required to apply the same algorithm in allocating credit lines to their members? - You say, “Moxey intends to be a better Medium of Exchange by removing the concern of inflation.” How does it do that? - Is you online portal a complete marketplace that includes offers and requests? Vendor and client background? Reputation ratings? - When using the app or online portal, is approval of the transaction immediate? - You also say, “It also removes the extreme deflationary dangers that can exist in a purer form of money such as gold.” Can you explain that? - What additional functionality will be achieved by using blockchain? “The major thing behind all currencies is a trust and transparency in knowing the currency is strong and blockchain technology will allow an additional level of transparency,” says Warren Sager, Moxey vice president of operations. “It will allow our currency to become stronger and more trustworthy.” But that does not address the transparency of the credit allocation process. Please comment. - The trade exchange industry seems to have been for some time on a plateau or slow growth trajectory. How do you see moneyless trading alternatives evolving over the next few years, and how much of an increase in scale do you anticipate? 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