Topic: A free bitcoin marketplace to sell digital goods of any type anonymously. (Read 1120 times)

I think the more important issue is securing the site and protecting legitimate Buyers and sellers from illegitimate ones. I mean, this is one of the big issues with digital goods.

I'd say, you have in place, a reputation factor, just like the one here in bitcointalk. You'll need moderators and a way to protect users from being scammed. Probably by using some sort of escrow system.

Also, how would you be unique from other sites just like this?

There are a lot of those kind of markets: http://www.deepdotweb.com/2013/10/28/updated-llist-of-hidden-marketplaces-tor-i2p/

I plan on having people agree to a terms of use, then allowing people to use take-down applications for copyrighted material. Much like YouTube or any other service with user generated content.

You would have to have a solid Terms of Agreement in place to host this.... and loads of disclaimers.

You will also have to assign permanent moderators to enforce this, to keep your side of things clean and keep you out of court and out of jail.

Do you base your decisions on what is legal in your country? In some states in the USA within the same country... laws are different. How are you planning to fund this?

A site like this, must be backed by 100% uptime and bullet-proof security. {A very expensive project} 

Your idea is good OP but it depends on how much popularity the site gets and most people don't want to operate a shop when they want to sell 1-2 digital good items. They mostly just use either this forum's digital goods section or Cryptothrift.

I think it is a great idea! However, to stay in business there's a few things you've got to keep in mind:

- If you (or rather anyone setting up a site on your system) sell anything that's illegal in any jurisdiction, you might have law enforcement coming after you, depending on the severity of the breach, hiding whois-info and hosting anonymously might not be enough. If they can't get to you directly, they will most likely just take the domain, as have happened with sites that did nefarious things before. Most likely they would go after both you and take the domain.

Examples of sites this has happened to: Poker sites operating with customer from the US. Sites selling counterfeit goods, like fake fashion merchandise.

So to stay in business, you would need to ensure that all customers are behaving well, that would probably at the very least mean to take down any questionable offerings once it's been put up, or even pre-screen it before allowing it. I don't need to give examples of what types of goods would be illegal, that's easy for anyone to find out.

Considering you do not monitor the markets, then be prepared for the consequences, because it will happen eventually. Best scenario is only the domain being seized, worst case scenario could be much worse.

Provided you will not monitor the markets, you might consider going onto the darkweb, but again that has its risks, as history tells us.

The idea is sound, "make a webshop with a few clicks", and it would probably work just great as long as you monitored the content of the markets. But let's say some youtuber wanted to sell t-shirts, he could just print his own, then start a shop through your system, which would be great. He could then direct his viewers to mygreatshop.shopstore.com.

Thanks for the feedback!

There are thousands of bitcoin users that don't have website programming experience that I'm hoping to serve!

nope rather build my own

Direct from seller to buyer via BitPay.

Hey little kiddie if you are tired you should go to bed as you can't even manage to answer a question or two which is a shame your mind can't function to that standard.

Anyway op i personally think that sounds like a good idea would need more information about how it will be paid who would escrow are they trusted, have you heard of smartcontracts now that would go well in a site as described above.

Yes if i knew my bitcoin was safe until product arrives then yes i would use it and sure other would also.

Imagine a website that anyone can sign-up for. They get www.websitename.com/CUSTOM-NAME/[1] to host all their digital products for sale with bitcoin prices. They can totally customize the look of their site with CSS, though the default look is modern and sharp with no distinguishing branding.

Websitename.com proper lists popular products across all the sub-sites.

People can sign up and start selling immediately. They can share the link to their sub-site and also get the benefit of the main site linking to their products.

No sign up fees. No oversight on what's being sold and by who. Totally anonymous from an administrative stand-point, though it is probably traceable through blockchain investigation.

Is there a market for a site like this? Would you or someone you know use it?