yeah so the currency exchange would be down to y ' all for balancing <| sep |> Probably put a couple subs in my car <| sep |> Screw these haters , don ' t frontload your worries , enjoy your chill kid ! <| sep |> Soon , my friend . Soon . <| sep |> I have a friend who is a truck driver and they have a lawsuit going against his boss for this same thing with the same lawyers <| sep |> If this fell through , I have the Watch Dogs code as well . <| sep |> Where he goes on to call everyone in the sub obese is just dandy <| sep |> I wonder if Adam is going to try to gain some brownie points by saying something like I have an advantage where I can steal this reward , but I just can ' t use it . <| sep |> Yeah web developer here . I ' d say if you ' re really worried the middle ground is some sort of escrow arrangement with clear deliverables . Also it depends on the quality of dev work you want done and your relationship to the dev . If a dev is desperate enough , I guess I can imagine that there are devs out there that would work without some sort of upfront guarantee of payment ? But a few things to considerThe situation where a client doesn ' t pay is more frequent than a situation where a dev is hired but then refuses to work and steals your deposit . Quality developers usually don ' t have trouble finding freelance work with clients that will pay some amount up front . I . e . , bargaining powers here is not equivalent . The analogies you mentioned involve physical contact and so there ' s more of an implicit trust and clear avenues for the contractor to ensure you pay them . Software Development ? Not so much .