Good idea. Another thing I want to ask is would it be possible for the receipts to be made encrypted and only for the buyer and the seller to see if the choose to, with the option to make it readable to the public?
The darknet markets could be a good market for this as a useful tool for a reputation system.
Hmm, could you expand on that? Our invoices are encrypted since these are generated by the user, which could contain sensitive information. However, transaction receipts are available to anyone; you only need the txid to generate the receipt, so not too sure what you mean.
Ok. I thought the receipts will be made readable for anyone to see on the internet. If they are only readable for the user and the merchant then good. Theres no need to do anything else. All Im saying is the potential use case for decentralized receipts will go hand in hand in a reputation system of Open Bazaar or some platform like it.
Hey pinkflower, the Chlu Team definitely agrees with you that a decentralized platform for reputation would be an incredibly useful tool. Chlu allows reputation data to be saved on IPFS with references from transactions on bitcoin, litecoin, zcash and ethereum.
Decentralized reputation is something our team has been thinking long and hard about -and we think we have found a solution. Check out our white paper at chlu.io and see what you think. We would be really interested to hear your thoughts on it.
You can find our bitcointalk announcement here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2199707.msg22116623#msg22116623
