Maple, I'll take them. Can we arrange an escrow?
If anyone is looking for escrow I am willing to do it free of charge. I will manually verify and post all the details of the MSC transaction before releasing the BTC. I have not yet done any escrow transactions, so of course I understand if you'd rather use trusted escrow agents like Maxmint or Pouncer, but I'd like to become a trusted escrow agent in order to help the MSC community as requests for orders grow. I am invested in MSC so I have a vested interest in helping out where I can.
jquinn, thanks for trying to help out! Here's how Pouncer started as an escrow: he deposited 5 BTC as a security on one of my escrow addresses. Should he try to scam anyone (which I'm sure he won't) then there will be a least 5 BTC funds to compensate the victim. I guess this helped building trust in the beginning.
If you want to go the same way let me know and I can setup an escrow address for you. But this is just a suggestions of course.
Okay that sounds fine to me. Would the arrangement be that I could get the BTC back after a certain number of successful transactions? Or is Pouncer keeping his in your escrow account until the distributed exchange is ready? Wednesday is basically hell day for me at work, I could be working until 3 or 4 am tonight, but I could arrange to get that coin out of cold storage no later than tomorrow morning (it's 3:30 PM here right now). I will contact you then to make arrangements.