Liquidnet, a fast-growing firm that anonymously joins buyers and sellers to negotiate trades withoutintermediaries, says that its average order size for large-cap stocks in the third quarter was 62, 000 shares.
Freedom of payments is an extension of financial privacy and digital cash-like transactions without financial intermediaries become a critical piece of that foundation.
Also, as the seller would not have to deal with shipping issues because the product can be transferred digitally without any intermediaries, the number of users interested in reselling their content would be larger than the number of active sellers on sites like eBay.