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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: Evanescence on September 23, 2012, 11:56 pm

Title: Should there be an SR vendor like a pawn shop?
Post by: Evanescence on September 23, 2012, 11:56 pm
Should there be an SR vendor like a pawn shop?

Like, I can send someone an iPod for a loan of 10 BTC.  If I pay back 11 BTC within 90 days I get my iPod back.

Or would this be against a rule?
Title: Re: Should there be an SR vendor like a pawn shop?
Post by: Limetless on September 24, 2012, 12:05 am
In principle it's not a bad idea but then in practice it couldn't work because you can't guarantee the safety when you are sending people items as collateral.
Title: Re: Should there be an SR vendor like a pawn shop?
Post by: Evanescence on September 24, 2012, 12:33 am
Do you mean like a correlation attack?

For example:
  1)  User JoeBlow discusses legal pawn transaction in one thread and drug purchase in another.
  2)  Since Pawn Vendor must receive goods their address would be well known
  3)  LE sticks on Pawn Vendor like white on rice waiting to leverage customer info that can be correlated to drug purchases

Not sure if there is any clean way around it...
Title: Re: Should there be an SR vendor like a pawn shop?
Post by: sabteria14 on September 24, 2012, 01:36 am
also, a vendor would be a bit reluctant to have a receiving address of theirs be made essentially public ie the one sending the ipod would need to know the vendors address. Why not just go to a real pawnshop?
Title: Re: Should there be an SR vendor like a pawn shop?
Post by: Evanescence on September 24, 2012, 01:50 am
Just convenience really, an all in one thing with less moving parts.

But based on the the points raised here including yours, probably not something that will happen.


also, a vendor would be a bit reluctant to have a receiving address of theirs be made essentially public ie the one sending the ipod would need to know the vendors address. Why not just go to a real pawnshop?