Escrow

Every ruling, published, chained, checkable

This is the complete public record of how escrow disputes were decided. An arbiter you cannot audit is just a middleman with better wording, so every ruling is published here in full, and the log is built so that we cannot quietly edit or remove one after the fact. What it can never tell you is who anybody was.

Why an entry here cannot be edited or dropped

Editing breaks the hash

Each ruling is published as an exact sequence of bytes, and the hash of those bytes is recorded before anyone sees the entry. The arbiter transaction that moves the money commits to the same hash on chain. Change one character of a published ruling and its hash no longer matches either record, which your own browser can check on this page.

Dropping breaks the chain

Rulings are numbered 1, 2, 3 with no gaps, and each one carries the hash of the ruling before it. Remove one from the middle and the next entry points at a hash that is no longer there. A log where the newest number and the total count agree, and every link joins, is a log nothing was deleted from.

A ruling appears here only after its checks pass and it is published, so an entry you can see is an entry that is final. The pills in the list below are computed by your browser, not asked of our server, and the verifier page walks the whole chain from the first ruling onward.

The log

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What is deliberately not here

One honest limit: the anonymisation covers this log, not the chain underneath it. Every deal is a permanent public record on its chain, with addresses and exact amounts, and anyone who already knows one of your addresses can read every deal it was ever part of. The escrow page says this in full, and it is worth reading before your first deal, not after.