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I'd never enter in a paid interaction without some sort of escrow that will make sure I'm not screwed over for the crime of being a good citizen. The victim could just keep the cost of the report without ever refunding. Innocent people will keep getting caught by this even long after the company acquires a reputation for never providing refunds.

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Since the escrow sees your report, it sounds like HackerOne.

HO will just create paid tiers where for a smallish subscription price, people actually take your reports seriously.

Smart contracts on Ethereum blockchain... force them to set a date to pay you and go public. They can't back out.

Going to need a lot of work in the next few years to make something like this viable, but ETH could make it possible

Are you saying that Eth can somehow withhold info until a future time when it automatically becomes public? How would that work?

Ethereum has a Turing complete programming language inside

Yeah so? Think about it. How do you make a blob of data unreadable by people on Thursday but readable on Friday? You can't do it without a trusted third-party.

If Eth has a solution for this, it would mean it basically solves trust in general, which is a persistent pain in all of infosec.

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