Mr.
@jafo and I both see a huge market opportunity for "trust" and "privacy".
Not just write posts about it, but actually provide it as a service.
(Which is what Hawala does/did.)
I wish I could come up a way to turn that "hole︀ in the market" into a product or service for sale.
The best I've been able︁ to come up with are:
1. escrow in creative and flexible ways (already offered on︂ OCT.)
2. insurance, also in creative and flexible ways.
3. bills of exchange in various/multiple︃ currencies or gold
4. expensive artwork as steganography for moving value from place to place.︄ (Already being done.)
On a personal note: I'm an expat in a very low trust︅ culture.
The USA, where I'm from, used to be a high trust culture.
The Far︆ East, where I live now, never was a high trust culture.
So I've experimented in︇ my personal life with offering high trust transactions to people around me here.
At first︈ they are stunned, but once they realize they are not being cheated, they are eager︉ for more.
Is there any way to "monetize" trust and privacy (besides Halawa)?
Thoughts?