The bitcointalk forum marketplace

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A fair amount of bitcoin commerce takes place within the forum, eg the auctions sub-forum. It is based to quite a large extent on 'social trust' - escrow notwithstanding - and social knowledge/analysis/feedback etc.

I'm just thinking out loud here, but I wonder if this could actually lead to something much larger in the future? Some kind of bitcoin marketplace predicated on those same social virtues?