how does the planned market place compare to other dark web marketplaces. Will it be hard to take down and trace users on? Who will list products and how?
still no answer to this one. I'd like to know how the p2p market will work
- who gets to list products
- who moderates listings (even the most dark marketplaces ban some stuff)
- how will you identify good sellers (ratings?)
- how will you prevent government take down and De-anonymization of buyers and sellers
Vendors, any user can put listings up. There's an anti-spam fee though, but it is very low (cents). No percentage taken on any sale and no fee is required to be paid to be activated as a vendor account.
Who moderates listings: There is a self-governance system that will be built where users can flag bad content. There are private listings though, these cannot be moderated but also don't appear on the public side of the marketplace. Only those who possess the listing link can access it. We expect most of the dark stuff to happen on the dark side and want to keep our public interface clean.
How will you identify good sellers: There is going to be a reputation system built into the marketplace, however it is still in development as we are playing with ways to avoid or at least minimize as much as possible fake votes and such.
How will you prevent government take down and De-anonymization of buyers and sellers?We will avoid any takedown just the same way Bitcoin has avoided take downs ever since its inception. We are a blockchain/P2P hybrid platform, and we heavily focus on privacy and decentralization. We make NO compromise on that end because we want our platform to be as resilient to any kind of attack possible. For example, even our proof-of-stake protocol is ultra secure, as we have introduced cold staking and quantum resistance to better protect the identity of stakers as well as secure their funds. All marketplace transactions are private by default, as we use CT (and RingCT further down the line, currently under peer-review at the NJIT Department of Technology). That means our marketplace is fully fungible. I guess we could compare our marketplace to Monero, as in we are the only fungible marketplace being built whereas Monero is the only true fungible currency that I know of.
The Particl staff has NO moderation or administrative power on the Particl, nor does it benefit from its use (they get none of the fees, it is 100% redistributed to stakers).
Also let me highlight the fact that we are in no way trying to be a decentralized Silkroad. We are building a decentralized privacy platform to give people the power to take back their rights to privacy.
