| >who decides? and how I was talking about Kleros at the beginning of the discussion, but it's just one possible option. >You can only hire someone for a job if you have the money. No, you can only hire someone for a job using this specific method if you have the money beforehand. This means that Bob can be 100% sure that his employer is capable of paying him. >In reality many people hire someone for a job and thanks to their help they'll have the money to repay them in the future. There can be other smart contracts which allow this. The cool thing about them is that Bob is always fully aware whether his employer has the funds to pay him or it's just an IOU. >But what if Alice disappeared because she's dead, and Bob id the one who killed her? This is outside of our threat model. We're designing a smart contract for employing a freelancer, not high value SC where murder would be economically viable. If Bob murders Alice this is handled the same way as any other murder. |
so a private service that need people to invest money in ether to participate...
Is this your idea of justice?
Some faceless arbiter, subject to nobody?
Why I am not surprised that your ideas closely match how authoritarian system (and dystopian cyber punk worlds) work?
> This means that Bob can be 100% sure that his employer is capable of paying him.
But he's not sure he's going to actually pay and he's not even sure who the employer is.
> If Bob murders Alice this is handled the same way as any other murder.
You're avoiding the answer, and I understand you, it's hard to come with an answer when your design have bugs.
But smart contracts are immutable pieces of code that act on their own.
If Alice dies Bob get his money.
There no way to stop it from happening.
the chain is a useless tinsel in this example of yours, it makes things more complex and guarantees no one.
The law already encodes tons of conditions that a smart contract could never comply with.
What if Bob is a minor or the employer is a minor?
That would make the contract void in real life.
Should people publish their personal info on the public blockchain so that the smart contract can exclude them from proposing or accepting a job?
And how do you check that the informations are correct?
What if Bob is an immigrant running from a regime and has no way to prove who he is, but needs the job to survive?
etc etc
you'd need to basically recreate what government do today, without the enforcement of the law capability.
who would trust a system like that, except outlaws and scammers?