That thread is about distributed markets and I wondered why nobody mentioned BlockAze. BlockAze is a market search machine allowing anonymous trade by encoding the entire state of the markets on Bitcoin's blockchain. As the entire state of the market is encoded, it cannot be taken down by a third party without taking down Bitcoin itself. As it is based on Bitcoin
and a fairly large project, I think it deserves its own thread here.
It fulfills a lot of the criteria collected in the previously mentioned thread:
- It is anonymous as it only requires Bitcoin addresses and transactions to work
- It tracks trade histories and computes trustworthiness rankings
- People can create their own stores within it and configure them with fees, name them and more
- It has a repository system where people can add stores only to specific repositories
- People can exchange RSA 4098 keys and use it to swap shipping information on chain
- It is accessible from the clear web, hell even the command line
- It is distributed. Not even the creator of BlockAze can take down listings
- It is easy to use. Anyone with BTC can immediately can create a listing even without downloading the software
- It has a low barrier to entry. Customers do not even need to have this software to buy listings but can use their normal Electrum wallet
- It is open source and therefore can be publicly audited
- Everything happens on chain
- Compared to ordinals, the bloat is very low. Most transactions created are real transactions with the intend of exchanging value.
A full manual can be found here:
https://milky.uber.space/static/documentation
I really like this concept, which is why I added it to my public faucet next to the Fulcrum Electrum Server.
You can therefore immediately try and integrate BlockAze in your own projects here:
https://moofetch.mooo.com
There are a multitude of viewers out there. One of them is:
https://milky.uber.space
But using the above RPC calls anyone can probably create a better website.
The creator is unfortunately very private and not the best at marketing but he appears very bright. Maybe slightly introverted. It is a very big project with a lot of thought and code behind it. Maybe we can get him to post here.
The open source code can be found here:
https://git.tchncs.de/BorealUS/blockaze
Lastly, here are some images:
https://git.tchncs.de/BorealUS/blockaze/-/raw/main/documentation/src/media/source_tutorial_1.png?ref_type=heads
https://git.tchncs.de/BorealUS/blockaze/-/raw/main/documentation/src/media/wave_tutorial_1.png?ref_type=heads
https://git.tchncs.de/BorealUS/blockaze/-/raw/main/documentation/src/media/surfer_tutorial_4.png?ref_type=heads