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[–]GrandWizardsLair 6 points7 points  (8 children)

If you try "forcing" people to use your technology, they will instead find a marketplace without those limitations. The Grand Wizard has multisig set up on Evo and BlackBank yet rarely gets a customer opting for multisig -- and both those markets have far more user-friendly support than TMP.

i2p was cumbersome, resource-intensive and untested in the field insofar as darknet marketplaces go. There was little incentive to set it up when Tor offers more than adequate safety for most purposes.

At this point around 90%+ of our buyers use PGP and plaintext orders are uncommon enough to be noteworthy. So PGP has been widely adopted. The Grand Wizard is cautiously optimistic about multisig once decentralized markets become big and somebody makes it more user-friendly than it is now.

[–]MrHhhiiiooo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In my opinion the risk of losing money in regular escrow is so low that using multi sig is a waste of time. I like the option to use it but I haven't even learned how.

[–]ShulginsCat 2 points3 points  (3 children)

What are the benefits...

  1. Market exit scam: I get my money back (but vendor gets screwed)
  2. Dispute: I get my money back (unless market sides with vendor)

Anything I missed?

[–]ShulginsCat 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Law enforcement can't get it.

That's worth the trouble already.

it can be released to the vendor if he shipped, or returned to the buyer if they prefer to cancel.

True, I guess it's up to the buyer. You would have to communicate with the vendor through another channel.

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