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Escrow is a much-needed service, and the issue I see is that not everyone in the bitcoin space today is familiar with creating and signing multisig transactions.

This is maybe a question for escrow service providers, as they are more experienced dealing with various cases. I'd like to know, if any, what are the tools, software products or advice you will give to someone buying an item from a non-trusted seller and looking around for solutions?

Where you'd send them to create an escrow multisig setup? Apart becoming a bitcoinTalk trusted member, how else you'd communicate to preserve involved parties' anonyminity? Encrypted chats?

There are trusted people that are escrows on this forum. You can see there's lists: Few Trusted Escrow Providers (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5047302). They are trustworthy people.

About the multisig wallet, it is complex for most people and escrow may not know much about 2-of-3 multisig wallet for escrow.

Also what if the payment is in USDT or other coins that is not bitcoin, only bitcoin wallet that I know of to have multisig wallet but I may be wrong.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. The reason I shared this post is precisely to hear from experienced escrow service people in this forum.

Want to focus in bitcoin-only or bitcoin-supported solutions for now, because the specific user case I'm dealing with (seller accepting bitcoin onchain only). I've used some bitcoin-only wallets that allow multisig setup. Just want to know if there are any other software or tools that maybe have better user experience and Ui, and that maybe offer a way to keep track of various open/uncompleted trades. Websites like BTCrow, ABescrow, EscrowMyBits and similar aren't available anymore so looking for alternatives around.

Possibly privacy-friendly and preserving participants anonymity.