Originally Posted by dyna mo

i'm not sure it doesn't make sense for a couple reasons.

they have to be able to transact down 9 decimal places right? that's a lot of processing power to process 1000s and 1000s of exchanges for 1 satoshi (.000000001 btc)

+ the contractor, can't just do a goog search for a random company to come in and scale this, that's what mtgox did in 2011, resulting in the stolen database and subsequent crash of june 2011

food for thought.