Using web-of-trust could help. Regrettably, I think the way rideshare apps solve this problem is with kyc. Perhaps local community can solve the problem. It'll be interesting to watch.

Scoresby

What I envision is that I would not just trust a "random" driver, but that this will work with a web-of-trust system. For example, in the Bitcoin Jungle there is already a mass of drivers and riders that use bitcoin. Riders could share feedback about good drivers which could be an indicator of trust. You could trust the feedback coming from people in your web-of-trust (i.e., follows of your follows or you can compute a trust score from your point of view in the network akin to the PageRank algorithm).

This has to be bootstrapped in each particular city/area with members of the community signaling already trusted drivers. It can happen at the local bitcoin meetup, for instance.

nostr

Ridestr - decentralized rideshare platform built on Nostr with Cashu

Thanks for the reply.

What I envision is that I would not just trust a "random" driver, but that this will work with a web-of-trust system. For example, in the Bitcoin Jungle there is already a mass of drivers and riders that use bitcoin. Riders could share feedback about good drivers which could be an indicator of trust. You could trust the feedback coming from people in your web-of-trust (i.e., follows of your follows or you can compute a trust score from your point of view in the network akin to the PageRank algorithm).

This has to be bootstrapped in each particular city/area with members of the community signaling already trusted drivers. It can happen at the local bitcoin meetup, for instance.