Buyer signed document suggestion

I've been thinking. A few people have been building up some good buyers ratings on DNM. But when a market goes down like SR / sheep / torescrow all that buyer's rep is lost. I keep thinking about what would happen if Agora went down.

Wouldn't it be good if markets had a button you could press and it gives you a PGP signed document saying "this user has a rating of 5.0 and has spent 9999 btc". You could then take this file and show it to any other DNM or vendor and they could trust you more even though your account is new.

Ok so Agora has no reason to do this. But maybe other upstart smaller marketplaces might want to code it up.

EDIT: by the way, you cant just edit this document / certificate because it's been PGP signed.

EDIT2: instead of saying "this user" the document should contain your PGP fingerprint which confirms your darknet identity.


Comments


[7 Points] synikal12:

This is actually a pretty cool idea. I had some legendary SR1 stats. I'd love those to show to silly vendors that try to make me FE.


[3 Points] None:

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[2 Points] Plead_Ignorance:

I wouldn't mind something similar to this. I had some pretty good stats on SR and lost them all when it fell. Now just getting back into some of these markets I hate that vendors have to assume I'm new and could possibly be a dishonest customer.


[2 Points] BHOgart:

From the point of view of a vendor, this is an excellent idea. We would be able to know with more certainty whether we are dealing with reputable buyers. Ever since SR1 went down, it seems like most buyer stats we encounter are very small numbers of purchases and BTC traded, etc. It doesn't help that there are 20-ish super active markets and many buyers try several markets out without their buyer stats going across them.

An All Market Buyer Directory, similar to the All Market Vendor Directory, would be great also.


[1 Points] gwern:

Wouldn't it be good if markets had a button you could press and it gives you a PGP signed document saying "this user has a rating of 5.0 and has spent 9999 btc". You could then take this file and show it to any other DNM or vendor and they could trust you more even though your account is new.

As proposed, this is partially gameable: create a bunch of fake feedback or scam a bunch of users, grab the nonrevocable signed testimony, head off to another market when one's account is banned, scam.


[0 Points] Bobandy2:

I would prefer building personal relationships w vendors over a document stating how much money I've spent buying drugs online. Research, find the ones you want, talk, exchange keys, build a relationship. Knowing each other in the future, diff site diff name, isn't hard this way.