What is the max amount you have held as escrow? Whether you are trustworthy or not, I can't tell, but as a general rule, I wouldn't trust more than what you can earn in a year while in a sig campaign. So that would be for example, if you can earn $12,000 per year, anyone using your service should trust you with that much.
After a few years, you will gain trust as an escrow.
I will hold the amount which I can bear if I lose for any reason eg: hack of my funds account where I will hold the escrow fund. The amount till now in my mind is up to 10k$.
It is not a fact what you think and what is the maximum amount I can hold as escrow? All the community will not use me as an escrow and only those will use me as escrow who can trust/rely on me for the fund.
I have not too much experience in providing escrow.
This is slightly concerning, although you can't really gain experience without doing it. Have you read
Best practices for Bitcointalk escrow providers? I've seen bad mistakes made by "highly trusted" escrows in the past.
Add the case where a hacked account got a $1000 loan from you without signing a message, and I'm even more concerned about your attention to details acting as an escrow. Please be careful
I had not seen but checked that OP. I usually do not ask for a signed message for a loan as a lot of users still using an exchange wallet. For loans I check
1. Recent Activity
2. recent merit
3. password changed or not
4. Email changed or not
5. Joined on any campaign or not and working on the campaign from when I usually check 4-5 weeks on the spreadsheet.
But for escrow, if it is any campaign then there is no problem as recipients will be from the lists of the participants. But if it is P2P then I will take the return wallet at the time of the dealing post or I will take the signature. For P2P I will never make any final deal out of the forum. I may discuss out of the forum but the final deal will be a must on the forum.
