Quote from: Thul on November 01, 2018, 12:58:24 PM

Quote from: dzimbeck on November 01, 2018, 11:27:06 AM

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If you are talking about censorship then buddy you are barking up the wrong tree. I've been the first to denounce governments and the freedoms they stole from everyone. Of course the best world is one without governments at all. Decentralized tech is meant to bridge the divide and when you start to preach that we are censoring you are blinded not realizing who is here fighting for basic human rights. We want to commercialize good business practices and technology and enlighten people to the future of free internet tech. As for governments, it's not just thought crimes they persecute... people can't sell raw milk, they can't plant a tree anywhere they want, they can't go outside naked which is their god given right (being born into the world without clothes to wear). Peoples human rights have been so hijacked modern day culture has become barbaric and unrecognizable to it's true destiny and nature. It's only accepted by the relatively silent black sheep minority because of "might makes right" and the threat of violence through law which keeps them at Bay. Once people are willing to die and fight for their beliefs, that might change. However that's not so easy considering they get everyone indoctrinated in the school system at such a young age.
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A great statement. Many thanks for that. I could not have expressed it better.
I completely agree with your remarks!

I know Bitmessage, but I wonder in this context how listings with detailed images should be possible. Bitmessage is not really fast.

It's a pity that you don't get an impression of the market and its offers via the bitbay website. Can I get it somewhere else?
I am curious how a shop presents itself as an example, how its listing and individual offers look like.

So yeah the way I handle images is a little bit of a hack. We post them on fedorapaste because it's anonymous and didn't need API key. OK that is clearnet but people can always link images if they want. And also we do have a TOR option for clearnet requests. Bitmessage is too slow for images. However, in case we have to fall back on it I compress jpegs to very small sizes like 10kb before even posting so as to not spam fedora and if it's down or deactivated then we can still send over Bitmessage.

What most people don't notice is how much their security was considered in the design. And so many people want to cut corners to get commercialism instead. Also I noticed your comments about anonymous transactions and I always felt that the best way to do this is just use Bitmessage for broadcasting the TX. This way the IP is always different as you ask other nodes to submit for you at random. Just forwarding the TX to other nodes so you aren't the one broadcasting all the time.

The best anonymity is Zcash though. Although the problem with that is the setup must be trusted on some level to make proofs non-interactive.

As for the offers we have wanted to list them on the site but it's low hanging fruit. Sometimes there is cool stuff on there like gems, coins, land, games, etc. It's had a pretty interesting set of sellers come by. However yeah I mean the lack of items does make it hard to gain traction. Even though our contracts are unbreakable and there are no fees.