Replying to Avatar a source familiar with the matter

Suppose I wish to sell my oil for your Bitcoin

Either I send the oil first and trust you send the Bitcoin

Or you send the Bitcoin first and trust I send the oil

Or we both send to some trusted third party

So Bitcoin doesn't eliminate the need for trust in international trade

And if that problem can be solved for oil it can also be solved for gold
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Byzantine 2y ago

the way this works currently is a pre bought contract and that will be the same in the future.

big players always trust each other otherwise they work with someone they do trust

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a source familiar with the matter 2y ago

If the market can somehow generate a framework of trust for hydrocarbons, base metals, salts, grains, etc why not noble metals?