Putting this up for argument rather than for agreement. I have read it twice and I am still not certain what it supports.
The trade-off is reversibility against privacy and there is no option that gives you both. Card payments are reversible and disclose the most; crypto discloses least and is irreversible, which is precisely why pressure toward it is a warning sign when it comes from a seller rather than a buyer. Escrow only means anything where the escrow agent is independent of both parties, which is rarely the case in practice.
Where I think it is weakest: the subgroup findings are the part I trust least — with enough subgroups something is always significant, and these were not all pre-registered.
What I am trying to establish is how people are thinking about the trade-off between reversibility and privacy, because you cannot have both. I would rather have one careful answer than five confident ones.
Figures above are from the primary publication rather than the press summary. If a number here disagrees with one you have, post yours and we will work out which of us is reading a secondary source.
tommy_boulder said:The trade-off is reversibility against privacy and there is no option that gives you both.
Fair, and it stops being fair at the extremes. The middle of the range is well understood; the ends are where the honest answer is that nobody knows.
tommy_boulder said:The trade-off is reversibility against privacy and there is no option that gives you both.
I read this differently from tommy_boulder, on substance rather than tone. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
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View ResultsThis one has a reasonably settled answer, so here it is. The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked. Narrow it and it becomes tractable; leave it broad and the thread will produce nine confident and incompatible replies.
LipidDoc_ATL said:Fair, and it stops being fair at the extremes.
Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use.