How does 4 coordinators make it decentralized?
Discussion
It is not a censorship resistant p2p system, but until recently we only had one coordinator, now we have at least 4, it is not very different from the decentralization that Nostr can offer with relays, in this sense it is better Bisq.
Nostr is used for events or messages as JSON. It's different from using a coordinator to trade. Even noones.com has multiple moderators but that doesn't make it decentralized.
The aim of robosats is that if a coordinator goes down, the service will continue to function.
The coordinators are not related to each other either.
The orders are created randomly in the different coordinators (unless you choose it).
For that reason I think the architecture is quite similar to Nostr and relays.
The RoboSats orderbook lives on nostr
Can I use it without a coordinator?
No, the coordinator is still needed to lock bonds and escrows
What it solves is not dependence on the coordinator model but rather the global market liquidity overview. Orderbooks can be made interoprable as is already the case for lnp2pbot. This helps prevent users from being screwed by closed platforms like peach where they pay 2% trade fees + high premium because they have no knowledge of global liquidity