No no phubai you are missing the point. The system would stay exactly how it is now. This is just a contingency plan that escrow would fall back on in case something bad happens. There would be no noticeable change to the average SR user because this all takes place behind the scenes. The buyer would be unable to release funds if this system was triggered because the marketplace would be down. You would have no access to your funds or orders. Not sure what you mean by lifting escrow? I don't think user to user transfer allows SR his cut. Also I would hope the same people would code it that coded the marketplace, so really you wouldn't have to trust anyone more than you already are. Yeah i know the in transit thing isn't ideal but I can't come up with anything better. Hopefully someone else can? Really it is no different then it is setup currently because the exact same people would be running it. It just decentralizes things and makes it safer. We sort of came up with this as a meet halfway solution that will allow escrow to be used and minimize the risk of funds being lost if anything ever happened. This just improves upon the escrows design.