1. There's a huge rise of bitcoin and more people getting into cryptocurrencies.<p>2. As for now the only(?) way to purchase coins is using an exchange.<p>3. to purchase your first coin you have to pay with fiat money.<p>4. Few exchanges accept fiat money and charge crazy fees for it.<p>My question is - can we skip the middle man and create p2p exchange? the main issue i have so far:
- how to charge fiat money and where to store it (escrow account)?
By peer to peer exchange, you mean an exchange built on blockchain?<p>One exists that I know of (bitshares). I'm sure others are being developed.<p>Turning fiat into crypto is a separate problem of its own. The problems there are legal and political, not so much technical.