This collateral crap never was in the works up until few years after bitcointalk scams went into masses.
For receiving and giving all my loans I had to give nor receive collateral, I can see the point but in return u can get scammed, but on the other hand the lender can get scammed so it's a two way street and you can blame the scammers for this collateral business. Makes me furious actually, face turns red. Wring the necks of these bastards.
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I am not sure if I am off topic, OP msg'd me, so I returned the msg and put a msg here as well, so if I am OT, report it and get removed and sorry for the inconvenience
Collateral doesn't work very well without an escrow service, which is what our platform will serve as. We are going to mediate between the lender and the borrower to ensure that escrow is not released in either direction without the proper events occurring (i.e. a loan gets paid off or it goes in default). I got your PM too, thanks
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