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This is a different type of trust than what I was talking about. Here's a quick picture: Alice wants to buy something from Bob. But the only way to do so is th

This is a different type of trust than what I was talking about. Here's a quick picture: Alice wants to buy something from Bob. But the only way to do so is through Eve. Then Alice and Bob both need to trust that Eve won't steal their credit card or money transfer in between. Your question is regarding whether Alice can trust Bob (Not whether Alice and Bob can trust Eve the Middleman) There isn't currently a mainstream app that does this yet. One notable example is OpenBazaar, where they created a protocol to carry this out in a trustless manner, but they're just getting started.

alextheparrot 9y ago
From reading the OpenBazaar blog (I searched for a whitepaper first), it seems like they aren’t trustless - they seem to have a concept of a moderator [0] who you need to trust (Sounds a lot like Eve)? I’m really not sure how this is technically possible, especially when dealing with physical goods. [0] Under scam mitigation - https://www.openbazaar.org/blog/openbazaar-development-updates-december-20-2017/ https://www.openbazaar.org/blog/openbazaar-development-updat...