Purse.io is an Amazon shopping site with a built in p2p bitcoin exchange. Basically you fill your cart with the Amazon items you want and send purse.io the bitcoin amount that it should cost. Then they put an offer on an orderbook that says "whoever buys these products and ships them to this person will get this bitcoin." Another user then takes your offer, buys/ships your stuff, and gets the bitcoin (minus a small fee). The escrow part comes in because purse.io doesn't give them the bitcoin til you either confirm you got your products or a time limit passes without you opening a dispute.
Hodlhodl has three services built on top of their escrow software: trading, lending, and a prediction market. Eventually I want to build all three of those on top of lightning escrow, as well as a purse.io clone.
You're right about bisq. Thank you for wishing us luck!
Oh, didn't really get into the concept of purse.io, your brief explanation is even better than on their website. I took a closer look at them and tried to find the benefits for both parties there. There are discounts for the buyer and only losses for the "earner", unless you have a free "gift card". In this regard, I don't understand why there is a level system for earner, as if a "gift card" falls from the sky every day. That is, if I understand correctly, the site is beneficial to one side but not particularly beneficial to the other, which makes it unbalanced. I suspect that buy orders are hanging there for a very long time. In contrast, any crypto-fiat exchanger looks more balanced, since everyone there will earn from the difference in rates by placing their orders. I think if we consider purse.io as an example, their model should not be applied in its current form, but change it so that it is attractive for both parties (buyer and earner), not only as an opportunity to get rid of a "gift card".
This is all my opinion as a user, you may take it into account if you want.
Yes, Hodlhodl has lending and prediction market, I completely forgot about it. To be honest, I always considered them only as an exchanger, the only association I have when I think of them.
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