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@ vinney | opfn.co
2025-02-13 13:43:24
A nostr-based peer to peer exchange is entirely possible.
Might even be able to sort of get a hacky version of that out of my forthcoming project
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- Patron: "I want to buy sats for fiat, I have a credit card"
- Arbiter/Escrow: "okay, I have a credit card processing app, I'll take your dollars and hold them" (maybe the Arbiter runs some ecash mints that make these kinds of swaps trivial)
- Free Agent: "I'll sell some sats for that much fiat" (zaps this amount to Arbiter)
- Arbiter checks everything, zaps the Patron, coordinates payment with the Free Agent, takes his small fee
Of course this may be highly risky / illegal in a bunch of ways, and there are good reasons systems like RoboSats exist... But the basic, dangerous-mode mechanism could be easily supported by Nostr, and almost is already