Seriously guys, why don't you ask yourself the obvious questions?
-Who would be handling the escrow?
-How do you know that escrow agent doesn't take the money and run?
-Why would this coin ever be worth anything when it is not needed for anything even if this was not a scam?
If you like the idea (I do), buy a coin that is going to present a serious version of this.
Both SYS and BitBay have this on their roadmap. BitBay has actually had a beta out for a year that can do this (Will get more user friendly in one of the coming releases)
There is a nice pump going on in SYS atm if that's your game. Or you can position yourself in Bay and wait for the expected pump there. Or both. Or put your money in a savings account. Just don't waste it here.
I think some people lean a little too much on libertarian ideals.
Crypto needs a bit of centralization. The exchanges you trade on could at any time take the money and run, we all know the famous incidences of this scenario happening in the past. The ones that stay garner a bit of trust and support, and that is exactly what we hope to do.
We built a functional site that we're continuing to develop more features for continuously. We plan on making HIRE the 'lubricant' of the site enabling people to get more out of it than just payments.
HIRE was always meant to help the crypto freelancer community have a platform to sell their services, and at the same time serve as a way for people to transact globally without worrying about converting currency, wiring money etc. etc. It also settles the payments directly in the currency chosen for payment, side stepping hurdles with paying through other trust based payment providers.
At the end of the day, the solution we have built and are continuing to build can be reached and used by absolutely any body in the world right from their browser. Sure, sys and bay have really innovative (and kudos to them) techie solutions to decentralizing market places, but let us not forget that despite their wonderful innovations in providing trust-less smart contracts for transacting without normal escrow, they were both mired in scandals at their beginning that could have largely been prevented. All the had to do was apply their clearly strong vision of not relying on escrow and perhaps use some of the tech they developed instead.
As I have mentioned in an earlier reply, I don't believe that building on the chain decentralised market places have enough traction not because the tech isn't "useful" or "valuable", but rather it has an inherent barrier to entry. Centralizing aspects of the platform means that we can reach a larger pool of users which is better for everybody. More jobs for freelancers, and more services to choose from.
If you do not want to support the project, then simply don't. We're not going anywhere, and we're still going to work on bringing more to the site.
Infact, in the next few weeks, you'll start to see HIRE have some unique uses on the site as well as being accepted for payment.
