Topic: [ANN] OpenBazaar - A Decentralized Market Platform (Read 20033 times)

Operations Lead Sam Patterson is going to speak at the upcoming CryptoEcon2020 in Hanoi/Vietnam this weekend.



Source: https://bitcoinsaigon.org/interview-sam-patterson/

It is a good idea, I support it.

The Dapper Weekly | Ep 16 - OpenBazaar Review (When the DarkNet mixes with Blockchain))

Open Bazaar has received an overall rating of 3.8/5 - A well developed app that needs some more pushes for corporate adoption to really take off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvAGPwmPBN0

Open Bazaar Changing E Commerce with Crypto: https://www.publish0x.com/why-openbazaar-is-ebays-biggest-competitor/open-bazaar-changing-e-commerce-crypto-xomjmo

Why do you ask for a fork when you already can connect through TOR and use\create search engines with no censorship on illicit goods?

i will check it out, i've been a fan of openbazaar ever since i found out about it because it could really make a big impact on mass crypto adoption

OpenBazaar version 2.2.2 was just released, and this update gives users several new improvements to the cryptocurrency trading feature. This release also includes other improvements and bug fixes; for full details read the release notes posted below.
https://openbazaar.org/blog/New-OpenBazaar-Release-Enables-Trading-1500-Cryptocurrencies/

BTC commerce flourishes more when dealing in illegal substances or drugs.

Is there any developer out there willing to fork OpenBazaar and bring it back to its roots as a decentralized darknet market?

If you did not know, OpenBazaar was forked from a project called DarkMarket who were also the developers behind the DarkWallet.

one good thing about crypto currencies is that its mostly decentralized. and people would really flock specially when its free of charge.

According to this article on NewsBTC from December, BCH and a few other altcoins (Zcash and maybe LTC) will be added to OpenBazaar, but BTC won't be "dropped" from it. On their blog, they write that their long term goal is that the software, in the future, should be "coin-agnostic" (working with any cryptocurrency).

That's, in my opinion, the best way to go. For bigger payments BTC still is the most secure, accepted and convenient cryptocurrency.

but the transaction fees are so high

Why are there so few posts on here?

I have read somewhere that you guys are going to shift to Bitcoin Cash as the preferred payment option now or is this just

a rumour? I hope it is just a rumour, because I am surely not going to support a platform where the merchants are only

allowed to accept one type of coin. BTC is the worlds strongest coin and I think it will be a mistake to turn your back on that.

That's great news.

Though one observation, especially in the documentation in Git. Why is it that the term 'linux' automatically cirmvents all other distributions and suddenly means 'ubuntu' or 'debian'?

We run RHEL based servers. Centos 7 x64 and Fedora 26 x64, yet there is NO mention of anything along the lines of linux being these distributions also. Apart from that, not even a single mention of possible installs using the RHEL based systems. If there is, I cannot seem to find them.

Apart from that, this seems like a massive jump forward, and we will be looking at setting up a test system, and it will be via Centos 7 x64 (Server) with Fedora 26 x64 (Client).

Much appreciated for the OpenBazaar team from Adelaide Australia

#crysx

Openbazaar Sees a Variety of New Vendors After Privacy Enhancements

https://news.bitcoin.com/openbazaar-variety-new-vendors-after-privacy-enhancements/


This past September the cryptocurrency-based decentralized marketplace, Openbazaar, launched its 2.0 platform with a slew of new features. Now a couple of months later, the marketplace seems to be seeing some significant growth as vendors from Darknet markets are starting to flock to the protocol’s benefits.

Privacy Enhancements Give Openbazaar a Boost
Openbazaar Sees a Variety of New Vendors After Privacy EnhancementsThis week news.Bitcoin.com took a tour through the search listings held on the Openbazaar 2.0 platform. The new version has three search engines including OB1, Duo, and Raw Flood which give users more depth while searching for products using Openbazaar. In addition to the improved search features, the platform now utilizes the Tor browser, has a native bitcoin wallet, Shapeshift integration, and offline stores. Just by visiting Openbazaar a user can see that these attributes have increased the amount of vendors and users exponentially, as there are more products to peruse than a just a few months ago........

I added OpenBazaar to the Cheddur app (https://www.cheddur.com/) given the details I could find on the website. This will allow more people to learn about OpenBazaar and get started. We’ve also linked all of the coins, apps, etc. that OpenBazaar supports, this way new users can discover OpenBazaar based on the coins they own, where they live, or the devices they use.

Screenshots:

https://i.imgur.com/m7TBSn8.png

https://i.imgur.com/AwieEuJ.png

If you've used OpenBazaar, don't forget to leave a review! The more popular the service is (via ratings), the higher it will appear in search results

I think Syscoin will be the #1 Decentralized marketpleace and will see great success. You should check it out guys. It has just growed so fast and they have marketing going on around the world now. They cooperated succesfully with big organizations and just Joined Jaxx Digital Asset Command Centre. Now also its Blockchain Foundry joins Microsoft,Blockstack as a founding member of the Decentralised Identity Foundation.
If you follow their Twitter, Facebook, Ann page and #SlackChannel then you will easily realize that Syscoin continues to be among the most professional, consistently delivering teams in crypto. Would be supercool to see if you cooperate together  

As I read here, the Bitbay feature you probably mean is the "Rolling Peg", but it seems more like a nubits-like mechanism to peg the currency to the USD.

My feature would not peg any currency to Bitcoin but only give an opportunity to merchants to give price guarantees.

Ideally, there would be also a "flexible backing" system: a mechanism that allows merchants to guarantee a price only if the BTC price moves downwards, but if it moves upwards automatically decreases the price (like in LocalBitcoins but with the "backing" feature enabled).

An example:
- An app developer sells his app for 0.001 BTC.
- The Bitcoin price goes up from 1000 to 1100 USD (1000 * 1.1)
- The developer's app now automatically costs 0.000909 BTC (0.001 / 1.1)
- The Bitcoin price falls back to 1000 USD
- The developer can choose that in this kind of event the price stays for the "guarantee period" (e.g. 24 hours) at 0.000909 BTC.

The advantage for the merchant is that he won't lose sales in rally periods, because his price relative to the USD then is stable - but he would win sales if the price goes down, because he gives users the opportunity to buy his goods/services for a lower price in USD. Again, this system would mostly benefit sellers of digital goods and other goods with low or zero marginal production costs.

But for now, a simple price guarantee system would be a cool first step.

well ...

these are interesting ideas ...

i think we both have some research to do ...

#crysx