Topic: FreeBazaar - OpenBazaar with Monero - page 2. (Read 8793 times)

It looks like he could care less. I'd recommend at least boycotting his pool, and if it was my cash he stole I'd be bringing it up in his pool thread. But like you Papa I ain't got no dog in this fight.

 

Pushing again... Atrides so whats up ?

god hear you!! exchanges are like a plague ( in the last times ) if we can avoid it, we will be more safe, i wish that people start to understand and use this type of trading platform, we will avoid lot of current problems, others will come yes, but in the end this p2p stuff must be a welcome software for all of us.

The major problem I see there is what would Atrides do with the several thousand Monero that he received from the community to fund this project?

Disclaimer: I am bitching about it despite the fact that I did NOT contribute.

The TPTB design strategie is the sound one. It could receive funds from other coins as well... potentially from all coins in fact.

I guess once OB grows it will accept all kind of coins, as it is the logical way. To be limited to BTC only doesn´t make that sense. In the meantime, shapeshift can be useful

Maybe it is wise to wait for the OpenBazaar to be a successful operation before we adopt it in FreeBazaar?

https://blog.openbazaar.org/openbazaar-is-open-for-business/

looks like it is finished.... any news or ETA atrides?

Thank you! It would be great if you could give us an ETA after you do.

Yes, I'll look at the code.

It would be a big step forward if the OP kept us in the loop about his intentions, seeing we contributed a sizeable number of Moneroj towards its development.

But I guess he is too busy counting his Dwarfpool fees from all the ETH craze.

What's the problem with a trading/marketplace platform? This one is at least a p2p stuff, so perhaps we can avoid exchanges (in many cases) in the future.

this going to make the get rich quick scam ethereium look nothing when more and more people using this openbazaar platform. yes, platform is all the raves about these days.

I hope the answer is yes. This would be great for the Monero economy

Now that Openbazaar is released on testnet, could you take another look at the code?

https://blog.openbazaar.org/openbazaar-released-on-the-testnet/

Well, yes Monero have future. So Free Bazaar can exist, if Monero users are growing. 

I can't speak to the technical design of that project because I haven't studied it and the devil is usually in the details, e.g. see my comments in the Synereo thread about how a great conceptual idea (decentralized social networks) falls flat on its face in terms of implementation and design strategies pursued thus far.

The concept of a decentralized, permissionless Ebay seems to be at least from a superficial perspective, a very important and powerful one. That is why if you want to be a leader for the global community on such then pigeon-holing your effort to only Monero currency support is almost certainly not the winning strategy. If you want to make sure Monero support is in the main fork (and make sure the bindings for Monero work perfectly as that being one of your strong motivations) then I suggest formulating an open API for all currencies and at least also implement bindings to Bitcoin so your commits are more likely accepted in the main fork or your fork becomes the most popular. Any way, that is my 2 cents from the peanut gallery because my head is not deep in that project so I may be unaware of certain facts.

An API for cross-currency support also makes one think about how to make the API most general, which allows for Monero to change in the future and only the bindings need to change. You all know these design principles.

How would you view the potential of OpenBazaar? I think its potential is very large but so will be the competition.

I rarely value my opportunity cost in $2000 or even $20,000 increments, unless it has come down to survival mode (and even then I in the past ate rice & salt so I could continue coding what I wanted to code). Whether I am delusional or not, I view my opportunity cost as $200,000, $2m, $20m increments and moreover that money is not my main goal (although I do need some).

I am paradigmatically and ideologically opposed to expending my finite life on closed paradigms. My goal is to change the world.

I always hating working for someone else. Even I had the best job at Fractal Design in 1993 & 1995, it just isn't me.

And that is why now I am working on the artist economy.

I can't speak for the priorities of others.

I highlighted the important part for you... is it still effort if some people paid for it?