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The problem they (should/did) solve was scamming, and payments. So you’d need to have some banking system with locked money, disputes etc. IMO that is the complicated part, the rest is just more or less a searchable database.

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haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Its possible that this is pretty sttaightforward. My thought on payment is stripe and paypal atm since they’re already established. They also handle this.

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- Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  So not decentralised then 😅
  
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  - haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Very much decentralized. Just with the caveat that payment decentrlization needs its own project. Successful foss software projects typically have a narrow scope and concentrate on them. Feel free to do the payment part in an adjacent project so that we dont have yo rely on stripe and paypal.
    
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    Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Sorry to bother, good luck.
    
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muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
That’s a solved issue. Monero escrow services have been doing exactly this for the dark web for years now

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- Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yeah but that doesn’t solve anything for the average Joe. Nor lost packages or scamming tactics etc.
  
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  - muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    If u get scammed u report it and the escrow doesn’t release the funds to the seller. The technology is the same its just the application that differs.
    
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