🧌 The anti-abuse bond works like a rental deposit: you lock a small amount of sats before a trade, and you get every sat back if you complete it, cancel cooperatively, or a dispute clears you. You only lose it if a solver finds you acted in bad faith, or, on nodes that enable it, if you let your part of the deadline expire.
It's optional, each node decides whether to require it and sets its own amount and rules, all visible in your client before you trade.
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https://twiiit.com/MostroP2P/status/2100579171663548827
I’ve read people complaining about this implementation, but I think it’s a good thing and helps guard against malicious actors.
There are people who complain about anything; I feel the same way you do. This implementation is good and necessary—it helps keep scammers out.