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Welcome to a fiat-free marketplace! 

Hopefully, one day this could be a place where everything we need to live a happy life can be located and traded for bitcoin without having to use traditional fiat currency.

If you have a moment, please take a look and feel free to give me your feedback: http://bitbay.com (http://bitbay.com)

This hybrid mobile app / website is fully working so if you like, you can list or trade on it now. Thanks!

http://bitbay.com/splash_wide.png

Good job. The main problem tho is still, how are people supossed to buy their bitcoins if their money is controlled?
And the amount of people aware of BTC is still too low, people is ignorant.

I wish I had a US-based international shipping forwarder (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059093.0).


Greeks should be posting their stuff for sale on bitbay so they get paid BTC.

First I like the design of site it is very professional and nice. There is very few products listed but it is to be expected. Site is new and the area of cryptocurrency market is a niche.
It is not ideal to sell things for BTC when list of goods you can buy directly with it is so limited. You still need to convert your BTC to euro in most cases.

The bitbay marketplace is FREE to list and FREE to trade.
If we can get Greeks to sell less-needed stuff on bitbay, they'll receive bitcoin and then can buy more-needed stuff on bitbay.

Yes, the idea behind it is great in theory it could be awesome and better than any fiat market. But only when you could buy Everything on bitbay, for now there is like 10 items listed.
And one more thing, how does it work exactly, because I am worried about scams. Say: someone listed item I want to buy -> I buy it and pay him BTC -> he can scam me and grab my btc without sending me anything.

Nice attempt. But, you could think of a better design. I cant even properly navigate to the bottom of your website. I am using Google chrome.

Oh thats not good  :-\

Please try now.

Yah... better now. Still, you could think of a responsive design. Current one is fixed to the center of my screen. And the menu does not appear to be clickable, but something comes down when I click!

I'm not a fan of responsive design.
I went for this mobile first, hybrid design. Its a website laid out like an app and should work on all devices of all screen sizes.

I am going to see if I can get some BTC Escrow members from BitcoinTalk involved to provide escrow services possibly.

Hi , why the site is not Https?!?
It can be worst for the safety of transaction and for the user info.?

Your site is simple, fairly easy to use and has a smooth feeling.

However I don't think it is clear enough that the 'All Stuff Available", "From The World" and "Most Recently" are drop down menus.

Do you have a twitter? Also you need really need https

Hi, 

The site does not handle transactions or much user info. You can list items with just an email address.

I will look into making it https anyway though.

Thank you. I will look into the menu design a bit more. And also https. I don't have twitter.

I like it!

Easy user interface, clean graphics, how do I sign up? Maybe you could generate some early promotion by declaring that some of the fees you collect will be donated to a Greece charity for a specific period of time?

Greece could be a great example of how a group of citizens can make a full switch from fiat to bitcoin. Do you know anyone on the ground in Greece that can give us some sense of the mood toward Bitcoin?

Great but I think you should have some social media, maybe tweeting the latest items on the marketplace - get your service out there!

I really like the domain name.

Thanks. I searched for days and found this one available on Sedo.

That sounds like a good idea!  :)

I've added my first listing, many more to come!  And I'm selling cheaper than I would on ebay since they end up taking over 10% between fees and Paypal.

I'll also be adding all the listings I had put up at onewallet.io, it seemed like a great Bitcoin site but they never got any traffic and I never sold anything there.

Hi,

This morning I added some arrow markers to the select menus that you mentioned above.
This should hopefully help indicate that they can be clicked on. Thanks!

For some reason I can only open it in a mobile version.
Loving the minimalist feel though, will watch!

EDIT:

*Most Recent
not most recently

That's easier to pickup, good work. Also good to see people starting to build up the listings.

It is a hybrid website-app design that takes a mobile first approach.

Thanks for the tip. I've just corrected the spelling :)

Hey, thanks for listing!  8)

This is a good idea considering this:

This is the traffic from Greece on BlockTrail's Bitcoin Block Explorer https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC  

https://i.imgur.com/pYYZahL.png

cool site :)

Hey, Just created a twitter account: http://twitter.com/bitbaycom (http://twitter.com/bitbaycom)

Just followed and retweeted :)

Let's say people in greece could sell their products to the international community and they paid in bitcoin, and greece people received their bitcoin and then they convert or sell their bitcoin to Euro and then the problem is start. all the  Banks that operated in greece are closed or the ATM not operating or closed too. how they can use their bitcoin if the banking system colaps there in greece.

May be we have to see another liquid asset i.e Gold...my point is if there is a market place to trade bitcoin with gold or hold with bitcoin may be people in greece can convert their bitcoin to gold and then sell their gold to fiat in the traditional market gold..and that's it...we dont need any bank service to buy or sell our bitcoin just convert it to gold and then sell the gold to fiat currency

Imagine though if they never needed to convert back to Euros from bitcoin... What if everything you ever needed could be bought with bitcoin.. There would be no need for any other currency - sell for btc and buy with btc.

It's called "closing the loop".

I think this is quite a nice and useful idea. Indeed, especially for people who cannot use their bankaccount (as this might be controlled; limited or even frozen). However, I think that if that is the fact, it's quite sad for people that they're obligated to sell stuff in order to become some kind of currency. (It's really sad to see elderly in Greece not being able to pay for groceries of medicines because they cannot get enough money out of an ATM)..

I already saw an offer from Greece (http://bitbay.com/?view=look&id=Sf5nHWIUuh). Someone wants to place a mobile home near a beach? ^^

As mentioned earlier, the design is really easy. I quite like that: there's no need to make a complicated design. This one is quite straight forward, as it should.

that is what we are always dreaming of as the community of bitcoin to buy everything with bitcoin but to make it really happen the country let's say Greece need to build many infrastructure to build the system such as build the merchants that accepting bitcoin build the system payment to pay Bus ticket to pay medicine payment with bitcoin and other things...but it will be interesting if it will be a reality when bitcoin to be a reall currency in any coutry

People gonna confuse this with others of same name...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=924646.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=850267.0

http://www.newsbtc.com/2014/12/12/newly-launched-decentralized-marketplace-bitbay-turns-huge-scandal/

Oh no.. What's this..? Was bitbay.net a scam website?

Just to clarify, bitbay.com has nothing to do with these people whatsoever.

OK so this could be rather confusing..

I've found:

• bitbay.net
• bitbaymarket.net
• bitbays.com
• bter.com/coininfo/BAY (aka BitBay)
• bitbay.com  ::)

bitbay.com (http://bitbay.com) being the only ~ bitcoin bay ~ marketplace that I'm reping.

If anyone gets a little confused as to which one is which - just look for the big, yellow, official bitbay.com logo:  

http://bitbay.com/app_icon.png

I believe bitbay.com is the only bitbay app/website branded in yellow and the only app/website that has ever used the six character, top-level dotcom domain name.

Apologise for any confusion!

I think it's great.  Maybe you should register BitcoinBay.com and have it redirect to the main site.

Thank you runpaint! That would probably be a good idea.

Mind you.. I was lucky enough to be able to get hold of the domain name I have considering how many bitcoin domains are [re]sold at premiums.
Not sure if I would be so lucky to get another at an affordable price tbh lol

Just a few questions: Why did you put this together...? Is it for spreading/adoption of bitcoin or do you think it will help the citizens of Greece?

As stated, EU will never let this go too far, e.g. starving people, and the left-wing government of Greece should pay their dept by reforming the countries economy radically (but that wont happen with the current government who think they can live off other's funds).

Hi,

Just want to give [all] people a place where we can get anything we need with bitcoin.

The situation in Greece where its citizens can't make any e-payments at all or withdraw [their own] cash above €60 per day, was the push to build such a place.

I emailed you about adding my escrow service

Thank you starsoccer9.

Going to start with monbux's service but will get back to looking at others soon!

nice domain name. How much did you pay for it?

Sorry, wouldn't want to say tbh. But thank you!

So, you dint register it first and its bought from aftermarket ?

Really good site and idea you had, I applaud  you for this.

Could you possible put links on your site, to food sites, can you even buy food in Greece (its important) with Bitcoin?
The future of people in Greece right now is dismal (sad about that) more austerity for them.

Anyone who sells anything can accept Bitcoin if they want. 

You can buy anything anywhere with Bitcoin, unlike U.S. Dollars or British Pounds or Chinese Yuan. 

But can you buy food in Greece with Bitcoin?
Buying food from other countries would be more expensive, don't you think.

Anyone who sells anything can accept Bitcoin if they want. 

You can buy anything anywhere with Bitcoin, unlike U.S. Dollars or British Pounds or Chinese Yuan. 

The search box isn't finding anything that is obviously on the site, like Akrotiri or violin.

Thanks for the tip! 

It seems to currently be case sensitive (works when using correct the case).

I'm working on a fix now.

Thanks TheButterZone - this is now fixed :)