Oh well. Talk to the DT users and see what they say about this. But I believe most are happy with the current system.
The only way this can be improved without having many centralized people or asking for KYC is to remove that trust circle and
peg it to the activity and remove hierarchy point levels (i mean, every trade should count only as 1 point on the feedback no matter if it was
made by a 1 year old user or a "vip") , less than 50 activity feedback can remain invisible, put mods to slightly verify each feedback to avoid
fake feedback between users, ban accounts who make feedbacks between them with the same IP, on the trust it can also show
the volume traded to avoid having +100 with only 5 USD trades, and give the mods the authority to randomly ask a seller to make
a prove of his funds, if someone sees some user is making "several trades" but always with a small group of people; he can randomly ask
in a trade where for example if he is selling 5 BTCs, he can ask to send a proof of those transactions and if he fails this should result in
perm bans, (no one will easily risk to have his account perm banned via making fake trades), those are hard rules, but this is how successful
trade sites works.
This should be stated as a rule to read before any trade.
The MM or escrows listed as "secure" at least should be asked for a verification with ID and video-call, yeah i know, this is bitcoin
bitcoin was supposed to be anonymous, and yes this is true!
but for the final user, my friend: since you started offering a public service with
your responsibility to maintain funds secured, you stopped being anonymous, because the only 99%
SAFE anonymous system
in a transactions market is the one made by a
machine. I think many escrows will be happy to send their verification
if they can raise the fee for their services, but at the end this will attract more traders here and they will gain real money, and the ones who don't
either they plan to make a fraud or his escrow services are not a serious job on their lives which ends in less responsibility, i'm not saying escrows have
scammed, at least i don't remember, but there can be only a matter of time when one account is "hacked" or something and escrow runs with 10 or more
bitcoins, i trust current escrows but in reality nothing is preventing one of them to take a trade as his "retirement" prize, and this is seen by many traders
that don't choose escrows from here to make important txs.