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Risked BTC amount is money that the person could have stolen or did steal. For example, if you do a currency trade where the other person sends first, your feedback for them would have 0 risked BTC and their feedback for you would have risked BTC equal to the BTC value of the trade.
Yup in theory for feedback in trading: currencies;hardware;collectibles etcRisked BTC amount is money that the person could have stolen or did steal. For example, if you do a currency trade where the other person sends first, your feedback for them would have 0 risked BTC and their feedback for you would have risked BTC equal to the BTC value of the trade.
people who renege on eg auction promises, or who build scamcoins eg ethereum, or who post phishing links
nowadays it's just as often a dick-measuring contest
the default part was for newbies who couldn't know who to trust; they could rely on say some big well-known guy like philipma1957's opinion that suchandsuch mining supplier wouldn't rip them off