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.
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.
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.
The bit I cannot resolve on my own 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.
pete_nash said:The trade-off is reversibility against privacy and there is no option that gives you both.
That is right for the common case. Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.
pete_nash said:The trade-off is reversibility against privacy and there is no option that gives you both.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
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View ResultsTaking the question as asked, rather than the general version of it. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.
SarahChen_PharmD said:Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.
Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use. Nothing to add that would improve it.