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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by arcticbull on Monday May 31, 2021 @02:30AM (#27340893)
Especially since you have to trust a third person anyways and once you're trusting anyone, you lose all the blockchain guarantees.
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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by ajkdhcb2 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @02:44PM (#27359378)
False. The third party can't take the money, it can only be given to the receiver or back to the sender. That's how multisig works.
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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by arcticbull on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @05:53PM (#27361891)
Correct, you have to trust the extra signer to make a good faith representation of what happened in reality. That makes the transaction inherently trustful.
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