A reference post rather than a discussion. Corrections are the point; I would rather this be right than mine. It is about paying for it, and it is deliberately narrow — everything I am not confident about is marked as such.
What is actually established
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.
The condition it depends on
One detail people underrate: an irreversible payment removes your only leverage in a dispute, so it should be the last step rather than the first.
What I am not sure about
The question I want answered is how people are thinking about the trade-off between reversibility and privacy, because you cannot have both. Numbers rather than impressions, if you have them.
rachel_ABQ said:The trade-off is reversibility against privacy and there is no option that gives you both.
Correct as far as it goes. The part it does not cover is what to do when the honest answer is "not enough data", which is more often than anyone likes.
rachel_ABQ said:The trade-off is reversibility against privacy and there is no option that gives you both.
Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.
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View ResultsShort answer first, then the reasoning. Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it. The narrow version usually has an answer; the broad version usually does not, and answering the broad one is how a thread stops being useful.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
Dr.AddMedPHL said:The part it does not cover is what to do when the honest answer is "not enough data", which is more often than anyone likes.
Mine went the same way, slower.