Topic: Support OpenBazaar!!! (Read 10096 times)

For prospective developers who want to contribute, here's some stuff you might want to sink you teeth into.

If you really want to help OpenBazaar, help us make the tools to implement the OpenBazaar Market Protocol apart from the p2p network. This would allow users to create, sign, and verify the Ricardian contracts that OpenBazaar uses regardless of the network they are distributed on, as well as manage the multisig accounts. It's making online trade and multisig possible over any form of online communication. Read more about it here:

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar/issues/1091

This will help the project far more than donations. Please reach out to me if you want to help make this. [email protected]

BUMP!!!

Said nearly everyone in the wall observing thread!

Short term bears get mauled by long term bulls and their horns.

You can say that again!

But its not just that, a decentralized marketplace is something that is needed in today's world, it simply needs to exist. Imagine being able to sell to your products to the world w/o having to worry about hefty fees levied by platform operators, or listing censorship, or being able to buy from anyone in the world at discount prices because of the reasons provided above, without having to get permission from anyone?

Its beautiful.

Hope that the OpenBazzar will be a key in launch BTC rocket to the moon!

It cannot be entirely shut down, but it can be effectively shut down in a number of ways. Adversaries could potentially paint anyone that uses OB as a criminal, making many people not want to use it; they could pull off a number of scams and scam attempts, making trading on OB inefficient and potentially expensive (from both wasting your time with scams and potentially actually getting scammed); or law enforcement can infiltrate the network and conduct a lot of controlled buys and controlled sells so anyone who attempts to conduct illegal activity on OB will likely get caught.   

Killer app be like the first tank in WWI ...

Bitcoin be like bear cavalry, 50,000 strong.

there is no one killer app. bitcoin has so many use cases that it will have alot killer apps.

Early next year it should be safe to use.


https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar/wiki/Development-Roadmap

Roadmap and Timeline
Beta 1.0 (August 31):

    Generation, signing, and verification of Ricardian Contracts.
    Generation, signing, and broadcasting of 2-of-3 multisig.
    Reputation Pledges, a proof-of-burn implementation for bootstrapping trust.
    Ability to back up database.
    GUI to manage these features.
    UPnP port mapping support.
    One-click .tar.gz backups of the database and keys.

Beta 2.0 (September 30):

    Multiple bug fixes.
    New feature: "Add Node" by entering Store GUID.
    New feature: Shutdown from within the web client. (Settings > Advanced)
    New feature: Web port is now randomized by default.
    New feature: Automatically opens preferred web browser by default on start.
    UX-Upgrade: stores on home page are now scrollable.
    Tests converted to formal unit tests, travis integration.
    Code reorganization, normalization, cleanup, refactors.
    Debian binary now lintian error and warning free.
    Compatibility and stability improvements in configure.sh
    Search improvements

Beta 3.0 (October 31):

    Emphasis on increasing unit testing coverage significantly
    More pricing options #123
    Direct transactions #121
    Add location to contract #104
    Edit contracts
    Block store
    Windows build
    Refund buyer
    Automated installation testing #630
    Improved notary selection
    Simple arbitration system
    NSFW tagging and search filter
    Namecoin integration
    Shipping address improvements #433
    Network stability improvements (fix zmq errors)

Beta 4.0 (November 30)

    UI and UX overhaul (Mike's changes)
    Reputation network (WoT)
    Reviews
    Tor integration
    Instant messaging integrated #192
    Login and password protection
    Search improvements
    Ecommerce tools (import products from other platforms, integrate with commerce tools)
    Private contracts / Private stores
    Add donation option (Tips to notary and/or dev team)

Future releases

    Simple installation on all major OS
    More Contract types
    Detailed arbitration system
    Support for auctions

What made you think so?

If there's going to be a Bitcoin killer app, I feel like this is going to be it. Does anybody know when this is going live?

People may decide not to use it but it can't be shut down. It's a decentralized peer to peer network like Bitorrent and Bitcoin.

Particularly since the likes of Comcast et al have done a regulatory capture of the FCC and monopolise high speed access to it. Cut them out too, send them to the poorhouse.

Best initiative I've seen so far are Mesh networks, using routers. There was also a free "data hose" one way satellite internet idea in the works. Now for offloading lowest common denominator donkey work of fetching high traffic sites on, and putting all the interesting stuff across the mesh wifi, we might have something.

OpenBazaar is a great platform and i hope to see it develop into a fully decentralized and open platform for all to use. I think its time we stop using the governments internet and make our own one too

No. Although things like terrorism funding is not really something that would likely take place on a platform like OB unless entities like ISIS were to sell stuff on OB and use the proceeds to finance themselves, however I think they could use many other marketplaces to accomplish this if what they are selling is not illegal.

I have seen a couple of teaser youtube videos advertising OB before the project was as far along as it is now and the videos were advertising that any buyer could use plausible deniability if the police were ever to intercept a package sent to them containing drugs. 

UPDATE: added OB's mutisig wallet address to OP

Proof of burn isn't for an IPO with open bazaar,but a way to bolster the reputation of a merchant or arbitrator.

Read more about it here directly from the source:

https://blog.openbazaar.org/proof-of-burn-and-reputation-pledges/

https://blog.openbazaar.org/why-proof-of-burn/

Wow, The whole thread is a burst!! People here are talking about burning bitcoin and Openbazaar are not even doing any IPO...

Someone could clone the code and create a closed source version. There is nothing stopping that from happening with or without the license. TBH we wouldn't have enough funds to go and fight something like that if it did violate our license ATM. Our core project and reference implementation client will remain open source and this will not change. Our goal is to build a free and open protocol that can be used in open and/or closed projects. Users will have to be vigilant to root out bad forks or derivations or remain using the core team's software which can be audited and openly reviewed.

In terms of content on the network it's closer to an agnostic marketplace transport and facilitator than a content inspector and that is not under the purview of this project. If someone wants to step up and provide a plugin or extension to help end users filter their content that is viewable that is possible and we would of course view this as an outside interest. We're not aiming to support illegal behavior, rather we are deferring that responsibility to an outer layer rather than as part of the core protocol. Does that help?