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This looks fun Vinney- how do you see escrow/bounties integrating with goods marketplaces?

The quick, obvious answer: people take their bounty payments and escrow fees to the marketplace to actually buy real things.

Other, more imaginative integrations I leave up to the market. But off the top of the head... I dunno, maybe somene sets up a bounty for something along the lines of "goods importing" where they want someone to set up a local import/distribution center of Nostr marketplace items to sell at their local farmer's market. And they pay an experienced shipping and fulfillment person to build the initial setup. Or maybe there is some galaxy-brained arbitrage opportunity latent in the nostr marketplace that gets uncovered via the free market activities of Patrons and their Free Agents and this helps drive prices down in our lovely, deflationary Second Realm :)

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vinney...axkl 11mo ago

I could also see people using escrow services for receiving shipments, maybe?! Imagine this:

1. Patron wants an item delivered, doesn't want to reveal his identity or address to the seller or USPS. Creates a bounty for this item, offers some reward over the item price.

2. Arbiter takes the job. The Patron trusts this Arbiter as a known broker for physical deliveries, so the Patron is happy.

3. The job goes live. A Free Agent takes the job, buys the item, uses the Arbiter's address as the shipping destination. Maybe this is a "questionable item" and this Free Agent happens to have really good anonymous payment systems set up. and The Arbiter has some kind of complex drop-box situation, I dunno.

4. When the goods arrive with the Arbiter, he confirms everything is to the Patron's request, disperses the "reward" funds to the Free Agent, and arranges with the Patron to get the goods to him. The Arbiter gets his pre-arranged fee for providing this service, as usual.

The Patron only has to reveal his physical address to the Arbiter, and since he's a highly-trusted node for this kind of thing, he figures the risk is worth the reward.

Eric FJ 🪬⚡️ 11mo ago

Buyer agents using escrow is totally a valid service in a reputation based network and is a badass social implementation of old-school privacy tech which takes a lot of the real buyer data offline 😉 that’s a frieken cool thought sir

Escrow also useful for high value auctions? Have you thought thru that at all? We have folks that want to implement auctions and I could see it being a big thing

vinney...axkl 11mo ago

I had not thought of the auction thing, but yea!

It's incredible what you can accomplish when you "de-tech" a bit and let old fashioned human trust do a lot of your heavy lifting.

"Verify. ...But sometimes trust"

Eric FJ 🪬⚡️ 11mo ago

the most beautiful things come from the simplest base layer protocols 💙

Diacone Frost 11mo ago

I read escort services 😂

vinney...axkl 11mo ago

There is no central authority that can dictate that escort services are not part of the offerings on Catallax!

mike 11mo ago

Every 12,000 miles or 12 months

https://www.kwik-fit.com/servicing/information/vehicles/ford/escort

Diacone Frost 11mo ago

Didn't know ford is in this business!

But wait, where are the companions?

Eric FJ 🪬⚡️ 11mo ago

Yeah your first point is what ought to happen to many service providers on here! That’s the circular economy baby

I’ll respond to the second one below your further exploration, really like your thinking…