Personally i predict a shining future for the Ophion marketplace, as it is having powerful features making it totally different from the other known marketplaces online like Ebay, Amazon and so on.
And as it's supporting Bitcoin i think the community will support and advertise it as requested, because we need really such market supporting Bitcoin.
Even though I love the effort put forth by the devs, I still remain optimistically skeptical about the whole thing. Bitcoin has been proven to not be the least bit anonymous and getting more and more easier to track by governing authorities, as you can see from Coindesk's recent article, "
New York police win FinCEN award for Bitcoin investigations" ... I just don't see why you should run on the backbone of something that has been proven to reveal identities of people time and time again. But I like the initiative to start the trial runs of something like this.
Chennan,
I'm fascinated by what you have to say and in the process have asked myself a lot of questions and you are right... very right in fact.
We have yet to start full development, so ideas can evolve and we can change some aspects to the whitepaper whilst keeping an asset/coin system and adhering to what has been bought in ICO so far so the same value applies to the new system.
I want ideas from people here as full development is going to start very soon.Bitcoin was made to be open and provable, but does that have to be the case with this?
We have a number of obstacles to overcome.
a. If we Don't use the Bitcoin network or another network, we would need our own. This would require a system to prove transactions and keep the network running. Maybe some PoW CPU based.
b. Would we need to show transaction db (blockchain), as long as our network could read it, it could be encrypted and only show address -> address transactions.
We could make this a lot more secure if we were to use our own codebase, it would just take longer development... It would satisfy me as I have built the network I have always dreamed off. We could keep the same features and even add more. We wouldn't need to rely on third party API's like counterparty or third party networks.
Please everyone let me know what you think, we could do this from scratch, As for development time I couldn't tell you right now, I would need to hire more developers. But I am happy to.
Please let me know people, do you want to continue with Bitcoin/API approach? or create our own secure network?-Sebastian
Well you have to be realistic.
How much time would the project be delayed if we do it the 'good way' Because yes a own secure network is the way to go.
A system with potential should Never depend on another system. Vulnerable systems have no future...