Writing this once so I can stop repeating it across threads. It is about paying for it, and it is deliberately narrow — everything I am not confident about is marked as such.
What is actually established
The trade-off is reversibility against privacy and there is no option that gives you both. Card payments are reversible and disclose the most; crypto discloses least and is irreversible, which is precisely why pressure toward it is a warning sign when it comes from a seller rather than a buyer. Escrow only means anything where the escrow agent is independent of both parties, which is rarely the case in practice.
The condition it depends on
One detail people underrate: an irreversible payment removes your only leverage in a dispute, so it should be the last step rather than the first.
What I am not sure about
What would genuinely help is knowing how people are thinking about the trade-off between reversibility and privacy, because you cannot have both. I would rather have one careful answer than five confident ones.
hank_denver said:The trade-off is reversibility against privacy and there is no option that gives you both.
Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence. Something real and small gets treated here as though it were real and decisive.
hank_denver said:The trade-off is reversibility against privacy and there is no option that gives you both.
Pushing back on hank_denver here. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.
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View ResultsShort answer first, then the reasoning. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.
Dr.ReproEndo said:Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence.
Can confirm. Same sequence, different timescale. Posting only so the count is not one.