For me it looks like an uber-like app but without a central company would
be an instant hit.
Payment of the rides in cash to avoid payment tracing. A reputation system
or web of trust to more or less whitelist customers to make sting
operations expensive as mentioned by Ranvier.
One could also envision transports being arranged this way.


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:52 PM, Justus Ranvier <justusranvier@???>wrote:

> On 05/08/2014 06:38 PM, Kristov Atlas wrote:
> > We can make this system shutdown-proof by blockchaining it, but of
> > course criminals can still attack people in meatspace. Similar challenge
> > with LocalBitcoins/Soft ATM approach for exchanging crypto-currencies
> > for cash. :-(
> >
> > Any ideas on how to deal with this weakness?
>
> They can't outlaw people who own cars from giving rides to other people,
> they can just outlaw (regulate) the act of doing it for payment.
>
> First thing to do is make it difficult for an uninvolved third party to
> prove the any payment has occurred. That's fairly easy to do with you're
> talking about decentralized digital currencies.
>
> The second thing to do reduce the risk of a sting operation. This is
> basically the same problem that prostitutes run into and one of the ways
> that industry solves it is by rating customers.
>
> Driver who are willing to take on the risk of an unrated customer would
> charge more and drivers who don't want the risk would charge less.
>
> Perhaps some kind of web-of-trust could be used here, and actually such
> a system would have many applications in the informal economy generally.
>
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