Escrow agents

[Sampo Syreeni]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Tim May wrote:

>The canonical example is of an escrow agent handling a deposit by a
>buyer of an untraceable killing. When the killer presents the
>appropriate form of evidence that this happened, and that he or she
>was "there" (*), the escrow holder pays.

True. This is a case where Esther *can* verify that Bob's goods aren't
tainted:  there's a body and it's common knowledge. Try this in case the hit
must be kept a secret. And how about trade in KP, and other sensitive
information? Since anonymous cash is likely to develop online, if at all, I
think infotrade is an important part of the picture.

Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:decoy at iki.fi, gsm: +358-50-5756111
student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front