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Zero Fees. Zero Censorship.

Project:

OpenBazaar is an open source project to create a decentralized market platform—using Bitcoin—that has no fees and cannot be censored.

Intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuRgHbTU9pk

Teaser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAGij8FSrNc

Features:

The following list includes existing and future features that we plan (and hope in some cases) to support within OpenBazaar:

• Overview: http://www.slideshare.net/openbazaar/open-bazaar
• Kademila-like P2P system
• Reverse Index Distributed Hast Table (DHT) for Contract Listings
• Multisignature escrow addresses
• Ricardian Contracts
• Triple-Entry Accounting
• Notary and Arbitration Marketplace
• Polycentric market law (precedent shopping)
• Notary Voting Pools and Arbitration Panels
• Sophisticated Web-of-Trust System
• Reputation Pledges and Surety Bonds
• BitMessage Integration
• TOR, I2P
• Markets: fixed price sales, auctions, P2P lending, service tendering, distributed currency exchanges, securities, crowdfunding...

OpenBazaar has an ambitious feature-set that it is pursuing. If you would like to help us out in any of these areas, please hop on the IRC and/or Github to get involved!

Contact:

• Email: project@openbazaar.org
• IRC: #openbazaar (Freenode)
• Website: https://openbazaar.org
• Github: https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar
• Blog: http://blog.openbazaar.org/
• Forum: http://forum.openbazaar.org
• Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/openbazaar; http://www.reddit.com/r/BazaarMarkets/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/openbazaar
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnw_d1lLMFhqkL5QdsuIInQ

Team Members:

• Brian Hoffman [hoffmabc] - Project Lead
• Sam Patterson [SamPatt] - Operations Lead
• Dr Washington Sanchez [drwasho] - OpenBazaar Labs
• Dionysis Zindros [dionyziz] - Developer; Web-of-Trust Architect
• Angel Leon [gubatron] - Developer/Architect
• George Chatzisofroniou [Sophron] - Developer
• Braden Glasgow [bglassy] - Web Development Lead
• Jonas Nick [nickler] - Developer
• Delain Markos [DelainM] - Developer; OpenBazaar Labs

Project Status:

• OpenBazaar is in beta 1.0. You can read our beta guide here: https://blog.openbazaar.org/openbazaar-beta-1-0-tutorial/
• The purpose of beta 1.0 is to test out the installation of the client and discover any major bugs with what we have so far.
• Things are still a little bumpy with beta 1.0, so please be patient as we tackle each issue and bug systematically.
• We will be releasing new beta versions each month until the end of the year, where we will release version 1.0.

Support:

• While we appreciate donations, we would prefer additional developers and testers to help us iron out the bugs and start working of new features and markets to implement.
• Direct donations: https://blockchain.info/address/16uniUFpbhrAxAWMZ9qEkcT9Wf34ETB4Tt
• Tip4Commit: https://tip4commit.com/projects/728

Update #1:

• Instructions for setting up and running an OpenBazaar node on a VPS:

https://blog.openbazaar.org/guide-how-to-setuprun-an-openbazaar-node-on-a-vps/