one of the things I consider a major challenge in escrow services in the crypto space is the price volatility of assets. As much as we all understand that there is volatility in the market, can we say that those who are in a business deal also understands that their asset of concerns has volatile price movements and who covers for the losses in cases where it is the obvious.

The escrow service has to mediate over such disparity except it is being spelt out that is concerns precise volume rather than value of the asset.

First of all, i have doubt BTCPayServer is suitable to manage cryptocurrency exchange. As stated on their docs[1], the common case for BTCPay is for mostly receiving Bitcoin.


I believe you'll need to use pull payment feature[2].

[1] https://docs.btcpayserver.org/UseCase/
[2] https://docs.btcpayserver.org/PullPayments/

JoinMarket is a really good start (and it definitely won't be banned).

Actually now that I've read about it, I would like to contribute to it myself. It seems like the perfect promise for making the blockchain full of coinjoin transactions.

I heard the inventor (chris belcher) is not doing well with COVID-19 though, so hope he feels better.

If you want to develop something that is actually useful for Bitcoin (not for your personal profit) then look into the concept of CoinJoin and the existing implementation of it and see if you have any idea that could improve upon the existing ones, maybe even introduce a new more decentralized one!

Otherwise if you want to create yet another centralized mixer, you'll probably get shut down and possibly arrested soon after your "service" picks up a certain amount of traffic.

Better still to develop his time to learn and make more research before trying to go into such services, I believe those who launches such mixing services has took more years to make findings on how they could executes their plans.
But sad news for OP did he read the message posted by theymos about mixers? If yes then I don't think here is the best place to further talks about his mixing service since from 1 January 2024 no mixers discussion or even post link that directly link to mixing website and whatsoever is allowed here anymore.

Look, I get why you asked, but this stuff is pretty sensitive in terms of privacy and security.  If I didnt know squat about locks, I shouldnt be telling folks how to secure their doors and  that make sense? Put yourself in their shoes.  If you used some privacy service and found out later the person behind it was clueless how would you feel? These coin mixing things are trying to hide trails.  I couldnt forgive myself if my newbie clumsiness undid all that for someone. 

Friendly advice;  if you want to develop something, why not try something you are actually familiar with?

I expect you'll see harsh criticism soon since your website use CloudFlare. FYI, it's known CloudFlare decrypt traffic data[1-2].

[1] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/does-cloudflare-proxy-servers-decrypt-my-data/145691
[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5247838.0

It doesn't look very good what the OP is proposing, after all the answers, mainly about having a good bankroll and having a team to work with, not trying to do it on his own, he seems hell bent on doing it his own way:


Good luck with your project, but I would take things slower to learn more about the industry, surround myself with a team, and maybe look for an investor or funding in some way to back up the bankroll.

Yeah, keep us updated, although something tells me that if your project is a disaster you won't be coming around here much to update.

Not really.

Most online casinos weren't made by one person. He needs a team, at the very least a partner and they need to hire a team.
For instance, he has some coding background, so let's assume he learns a bit and covers backend dev. He needs a front end guy, possibly another back end with experience in crypto wallets, unless they want to handle all deposits/withdrawals manually, in such case he needs someone trusted to manage the wallet. He'll need someone to handle all the advertising and promoting, someone to take care of support... That's not a one man job.

Then we should talk funds.
How much do you have at hand? If that's less than $100k it's going to be hard. You'll have to cut cost somewhere and limit bets to some small numbers like $10 so they won't break your bank, but by doing that your business will scream "i'm low on money" and it will deter players.

Security issues are the main problem, so I hope this won't take off
My first idea when reading the title was to sha256 an image file, enter that into Bitaddress.org's Wallet Details tab, and get a private key. It's easy! But creating a backup is not easier than backup up a "normal" wallet.

I think Photo Seeds has a fundamental flaw:
If you've ever played the memory game (kids are much better at it than adults), you'll know you can barely remember a few pictures. And every new picture you see makes it more confusing.