Transaction

j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM(<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=645.msg7712#msg7712">Quote from: satoshi on August 05, 2010, 06:08:30 PM</a></div><div class="quote">A transaction can be written that requires two signatures to spend it next.&nbsp; You write a payment that requires the signature of both the recipient and the sender to spend it.&nbsp; To release the escrow, you give the recipient the signature for your half, or the payee can return it by giving you his signed half.&nbsp; There's no mediator in this simple case.&nbsp; The recourse is to refuse to ever release it, essentially burning the money.<br/></div><br/>Due to that recourse, it is unlikely to be used as an escrow mechanism <img alt="Smiley" border="0" src="/static/img/emoticons/smiley.gif"/><br/></div> text/html