After getting an in principle agreement from
lind82 to pay
BTC 0.24 to a third party so that
kassadin5 in turn would release the funds held by the Break Proof Bithra.com all of my hard work (and I mean
hard work) was unraveled when kassadin5 simultaneously contacted lind82 with promises that all red trust would be removed for lind82's trust page.
I never gave that undertaking and I never would remove it either. Now lind82 is denying he gave an in principle agreement, unless of course he doesn't understand English fully which appears to be a second language for them.
kassadin5 is his own worst enemy. He got cold feet and wanted out of the trade, he's lashed out at Bithra.com and by extension to RHavar (no doubt kassadin5 will no lash out at me...) Since I was last online about eleven hours ago this was posted:
After a lot of thinking, I've disabled creating new escrows on bithra. The main point of bithra was to remove the incentive from scamming, it was never (by design) able to stop it. I still think it's a cool idea, and by and large has helped a lot of people; but I'd rather not get dragged into this crap when things go wrong. In kassadin5's specific case for example, while I feel for him, he's used a free escrow service with full awareness that it doesn't provide arbitration and then jumps to accuse me of scamming when he doesn't get arbitration. Incidentally, I've spent >1 BTC out of my own pocket helping people who were scammed while using bithra (like tricked into releasing the funds), (as some of the previous comments will attest to). There's a hand-full of uncompleted escrow addresses, if they're not resolved within a year of creation I'll sweep them into some public donation addresses. No extensions of existing escrows will be granted, they'll need to be terminated within a year.
I'll reopen it for new escrows if I have the time and energy to develop a system where the receiver needs to provide a deposit, to prove he's serious about the trade and will suffer a financial loss if he's merely trolling.
So congratulations kassadin5 for breaking an unbreakable method of Escrow. You are your own worst enemy. Bithra.com didn't scam you.
