Surety bonds are just another way to manage trust in exchanges without
relying on reputation systems alone.

Daniel Krawisz also came up with an idea of using purchased identities with
Bitcoins that can be used in combination with surety bonds to automatically
reimburse any party that is defrauded. The more costly your identity, as a
proportion of the individual exchange, the more trust you have... a way to
avoid the pitfalls of reputation systems alone (complementary solutions are
the best).

-- drwasho
On 12/04/2014 10:39 AM, "Uwe Cerron" <uwecerron@???> wrote:

> surety bonds eh? interesting. I think Bitmessage would be better for
> communication or perhaps using the same blockchain to send messages but
> that would be too expensive imo.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Washington Sanchez <
> washington.sanchez@???> wrote:
>
>> This is brilliant!
>>
>> Couple of features to implement:
>>
>> 1. Corresponding stealth addresses for their ID
>> 2. Implementation of surety bonds as per Lex Cryptographia (
>> http://bitcoinism.blogspot.com/2013/12/lex-cryptographia.html?m=1)
>>
>> With the private channels for comms, will this be done using cryptocat
>> (just as a matter of convenience)?
>>
>> Awesome job!
>> On 12/04/2014 8:53 AM, "Amir Taaki" <genjix@???> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> For the Bitcoin Expo hackathon, we made a decentralised market. Thanks to
>>> the organisers, and the warm community of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada
>>> for this absolutely amazing event. They are really working on Bitcoin
>>> through their passion, and I was honoured to be welcomed to Bitcoin
>>> Decentral by Anthony Dilorio and others.
>>>
>>> DarkMarket & the next generation of uncensored trade
>>>
>>> What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. The early attempts at shutting
>>> down centralised file sharing services ended up spawning stronger
>>> technology. Like a hydra, those of us in the community that push for
>>> individual empowerment are in an arms race to equip the people with the
>>> tools needed for the next generation of digital black markets.
>>>
>>> Today we present to you the next generation of such software: opensource,
>>> uncensored and private. The next generation of resilient uncensored
>>> markets. The social implications of this breakthrough raise bigger
>>> questions about the role of technology, and efforts under way to carve
>>> out
>>> spaces of the future where we can survive, and thrive as freedom loving
>>> people.
>>>
>>> Technology is power, and a new front has opened in the struggle for
>>> freedom. These tools are for resource management, digital governance and
>>> new finance. Technology is not, and never will be neutral. Software is
>>> art.
>>>
>>> Features:
>>> * Distributed identity.
>>> * Distributed ratings.
>>> * Multisig escrow.
>>> * Seller pages.
>>> * Private messages.
>>>
>>> Amir Taaki - dev
>>> William Swanson - dev
>>> Damian Cutillo - designer
>>>
>>> Source: https://github.com/darkwallet/darkmarket (bash run_dev.sh)
>>>
>>> Slides: http://libbitcoin.dyne.org/darkmarket/
>>>
>>> This is merely a prototype and not production software.
>>>
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