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@bherd-rb based on out discussion yesterday I started looking at the docs for the IO module in Akka. Looks like this would be the module that we would want to use to get data from the outside world into some Actor's mailbox for processing.

Getting the GPS coordinates for a particular IoT device and loading them into a TradingActor might be a reasonable use case that would serve both our purposes. Car looking for a parking spot would have GPS coords that would need to be efficiently loaded into a TradingActor (parking meter would also have GPS coords that would need to be loaded into an AuctionActor); similarly a smart house would need to load its GPS coordinates into its TradingActor.

Thoughts?

@bherd-rb In order for the settlement service to do anything non-trivial it will either need to be able to communicate with the issuers of the AskOrder and BidOrder instances contained in each Fill instance directly (in order to request funds and tradables as part of the settlement process) or the settlement service and all of the trading actors need to have access to something like a distributed ledger which stores all of the transactions and associated information (such as market prices, etc).

It might be interesting to contrast bilateral settlement, with central-counterparty (CCP) settlement (which uses a centralized ledger), with distributed ledger settlement options such as Blockchain.