The problem is, it doesn’t really help anyway. Because the dispute can happen after it shipped. After received, or not as promised, or broken etc. we should separate adjudication from the monetary transaction. Again, trust is a social value. And can not be superimposed on money. Anyway, cafe’s could start using Nostr now to charge clients. Since they are right there, for example.
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I think you’re absolutely correct. Escrow wouldn’t help with any issues after the product shipped anyway. Definitely something to think deeply about.
Thanks for bouncing these thoughts off with each other! Today I caught myself in fiat thinking. I was pealing an “organic” orange. My wife said, how do you know it’s really “organic”? I said, you’re right, it needs a lot more regulation. My wife said, why would you trust it when the government says it’s organic? She’s right, I should trust the farmer who produces the orange. Bitcoin will bring us back to peer to peer trust. In communities. Somehow….