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Re: [ANN] OpenBazaar - A Decentralized Market Platform
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SamuelRPatterson
on 06/09/2014, 04:32:00 UTC
Quote from: frankenmint on September 04, 2014, 01:59:05 PM
[reserved]

Since no one else stepped up to reply 1st - thoughts notes and ideas to be posted here soon.

update: Here's my review for those who are on the fence: http://honeybadgerofmoney.com/2014/09/04/open-bazaar-anonymous-marketplace-1st-impressions-review/

If you're too lazy to read or see the pictures, imo it's just not ready to use yet, its fun to try out and I'd like to be able to see other marketplaces but as it stands I can only see my own stuff which leads me to question if anyone can see anything anyone else has off the network.

Hey frankenmint, thanks for trying out the platform.

If you're unable to see other marketplaces, then you likely have a an issue with setting up UPnP or port forwarding. There are approximately 25 stores on the network with various products right now (I just bought some honey from a beekeeper in Ohio).

If you like I can help walk you through getting it working correctly. Or stop by the IRC room #openbazaar on Freenode.

This is Sam Patterson by the way, I'm Operations Lead on the project. I just joined in order to weigh in on OpenBazaar.
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Re: [ANN] MaskCoin and MaskNetwork
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SamuelRPatterson
on 20/06/2014, 15:47:20 UTC
Quote from: themasknetwork on June 20, 2014, 02:14:08 PM
Quote from: hamiltino on June 20, 2014, 02:30:42 AM
Quote from: platorin on June 06, 2014, 04:19:03 PM
So this is something like closed p2p ebay with built up payment mechanism? Looks decent, but if I am not mistaken there already is a Bitcoin, ebay and TOR network. Those probably offer much more then your current project.

Are you serious?
silkroad charges 6% per item sold. TOR is not a completely decentralized network and it is slow. The server the web files are hosted on can be taken down anytime. TOR blackmarket is not the solution, a p2p completely decentralized market IS the solution.

Whether it be Maskcoin or OpenBazzar, I don't care, what i do care about is the fact that the marketplace is 100% decentralized and anonymous.

As far as i now, OpenBazzar is not quite a full p2p solution. You still need to "connect" to "stores". You are still browsing remote computers. Also does not have an integrated payment method. It uses Bitcoin for payments. There are also rumors that it is not going to be released anytime soon :

"None of its original creators want to work on it any more, with their own projects taking up the majority of their time, and so it is left to the community to continue the coding. "

When you put a new item for sale on MaskNetwork, a packet is broadcasted and all nodes will update their local database. When you browse a store, you are not browsing a REMOTE location, you are browsing YOUR COMPUTER. Only when you click "Buy", the payment transaction is broadcasted.

That means 100% anonymity for those who sell. As a seller, you don't need a hosting / computer. You just add your product to the distributed ledger and wait for orders.

Hey, Sam from the OpenBazaar project here. Just wanted to clear up a few things.

That quote about the creators not continuing development is about Dark Market, not OpenBazaar. Because of that, we forked Dark Market and are continuing development. We have a development roadmap and are aiming to have beta release late summer:

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

Also, it is a p2p marketplace. Each computer is a node, and listings are indexed with keywords in DHTs and can be searched.

Our use of Bitcoin is something that we think is a feature, not a bug.

Good luck with MaskNetwork. Creating a p2p network for trade is a difficult project, so if you're open to collaboration on the tough questions, we are too. We want to see this happen. You can reach me at sam@openbazaar.org.