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January 10, 2019, 12:02:46 AM

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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 etc
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