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Decentralized Bitcoin Marketplace OpenBazaar Reveals High-Level Roadmap

OpenBazaar, a decentralized marketplace that uses Bitcoin, has revealed its high-level roadmap to get its users acquainted with its plans going forward.

The platform will be adding several features, typically found on centralized marketplaces, to its platform soon. The improvements to be made in the forthcoming months have been categorized into ongoing improvements, short term (< 3 months), medium term (~3–12 months) and long term (>12 months).

Short-term goals include integrating features such as email notifications, webhooks, backups, order management, inventory management, order process UI, and much more.

The ongoing improvements include moderation system, listing flexibility, reputation system, discovery and more. In particular, it includes improving the privacy feature of the platform. OpenBazaar said that the absence of network privacy, namely obfuscation of a node’s real IP address, has been often criticized. This feature is enabled through the use of a VPN, I2P, or Tor. Addressing this issue, OpenBazaar said that it will be upgrading the network backend to InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), which will be a significant step forward to eventually integrating Tor.
http://www.econotimes.com/Decentralized-Bitcoin-Marketplace-OpenBazaar%C2%A0Reveals-High-Level-Roadmap-206577