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    May 29, 2013, 08:33:53 AM
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    There have been quite some initiatives lately about setting up decentralized P2P exchange solutions. I believe this is a great development and I'm sure it will all work out (the technology is there and the time is right) except for ONE thing:

    Getting fiat in and out safely.

    I've asked it before in other threads, and I'd like to once again discuss this issue exclusively:

    For all this to work, if Alice wants to buy bitcoins (or other cryptocurrency) with dollars (or other fiat), at some point she'll have to put some money into the P2P exchange ecosystem by means of a wire transfer (I mean a classic oldschool bank transfer or SEPA transaction).
    (1) How can she be sure the person she wires her fiat money to (let's call him Bob) doesn't disappear, or claims he never received it, or otherwise screws her over?
    (2) Vice versa, what happens if Alice claims she wired her dollars to Bob's bank account, but she actually never did. Who's going to decide if Alice or Bob is right?

    In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
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