Read the primary source rather than the write-up and the two do not agree, so here is what is actually in it.
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 comparator does most of the work in how this gets reported, and it is not the comparator most people think they are citing.
The question I want answered is how people are thinking about the trade-off between reversibility and privacy, because you cannot have both. I have searched first, so if this is covered somewhere point me at it and I will read it.
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.
HPLC_Greg said:The trade-off is reversibility against privacy and there is no option that gives you both.
Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.
HPLC_Greg said:The trade-off is reversibility against privacy and there is no option that gives you both.
Pushing back on HPLC_Greg here. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.
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View ResultsShort answer first, then the reasoning. 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.
BenResearch_OR said:Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals.
Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction.