If the service provider actually requires prepayment instead of a balance deducted when the job result is accepted, then doesn’t it become just a 1:1 relationship?

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I talked to @npub1qlkw...lf5y about this and we had an idea. What if we added “bid” and “accept bid” kinds to the flow? 1. User posts a job request (without a price) and includes whether they want the result to be public or private 2. Service providers bid on the job 3. User selects one of the bids and pays the service provider 4. Service provider delivers job result privately or publicly as agreed to in the request/bid. No wasted work, more price competition, and reputation of the service provider is easier to manage than pseudo-anonymous or fully anonymous npubs.