I was looking some crypto to invest, then found bitbay and get excited this currency fundaments and also the recently market growth. After this, I've decided to buy some and hold.
However, I've got some doubts about how BAY can handle about common marketplacess existent problems and the specifics decentralized marketplace challenges. Lets use ebay as parameter.
On ebay we have a lot of dishonest people (buyers/sellers). Its very common the ebay staff intervention to solve many kind of problems with transactions and many times those problems aren't solved.
The honest people of the ebay community (buyers/sellers) have a certain security about transaction and sales, even the problem was caused by thirds (like post offices, etc). This security is what bring a mass of buyers and big sellers to ebay plataform.
If to decentralized need to attract big sellers and a large mass of buyers to be successful, how bitbay can do this if the envolved have to trust on each other honesty? How bitbay system can force a fair solution about the transactions problem? Who will judge who is right? If I buy some product from a chinese seller and I don't receive, on my side "never received the product" on his side "I sent", who will prevail?
I know bitbay has a qualification system but this is enough to bring feeling of safety to sellers/buyers?
I still excited about bitbay, my intention here is just ask questions that I made to myself.
BitBay uses double deposit escrow (DDE) in addition to a reputation system.
Default for DDE is that both buyer and seller put up a deposit that is 100% the value og the transaction. If everything goes smoth, they will release (simultaniously) the deposit. If one of them tries to cheat, the deposit will not be released, and the scammer has gained nothing.