Good to see some suggestions coming in for rebranding / renaming, not sure there is anything that sticks so far, i.e I think there are some better names or themes we could come up with.

I was looking into a way to allow for all image extensions to be allowed for our market but it might not be the best thing to prioritise, atm it will allow .pngs which should be fine.

Perhaps I'll look at setting up static / fixed categories unless there are other things that people think are more important.

Outside actual development I think it's a case of us needing some nice branding and a gradual but consistent marketing effort.

Good to see some suggestions coming in for rebranding / renaming, not sure there is anything that sticks so far, i.e I think there are some better names or themes we could come up with.

I was looking into a way to allow for all image extensions to be allowed for our market but it might not be the best thing to prioritise, atm it will allow .pngs which should be fine.

Perhaps I'll look at setting up static / fixed categories unless there are other things that people think are more important.

Outside actual development I think it's a case of us needing some nice branding and a gradual but consistent marketing effort.

Choice of Two Party Escrow
To appreciate the value of the two party escrow system and why it is so important for secure, private and middle men free exchange, it is worth considering problems with the traditional approach of using a 3rd party escrow agent.

In a third party escrow system the buyer and seller ask a third trusted party (an escrow agent) to receive payment from the buyer before the item is delivered and to then release the payment to the seller after the item is delivered. If there is a dispute about the quality of the item or whether it was delivered, the third party acts as a mediator and decides whether to send the payment or refund the buyer. Some of the problems with this model include:

•    Unless escrow agent receives the item before forwarding it to the buyer and has the expertise to verify the quality of the item, they have no means of fairly mediating a dispute. This problem becomes much worse when services are being exchanged. Proof of package delivery doesn't verify what was delivered or it's quality and photos from the buyer could be of another item, etc.
•    Credit cards and centralized marketplaces seem like existence proofs of working escrow agents but they are non-anonymous, do not resolve disputes fairly (as most small merchants can tell you) and are known to break in markets with high fraud potential (e.g. third world countries, porn, etc).
•    Untrustworthy escrow agents who may steal escrow, fail to release escrow or collude with (or be) one of the parties.
•    Escrow agents with strong reputation may be doing a long con to take off with or extort a large payment or group of payments.
•    Escrow agent expenses in the form of labor and risk are passed on to the buyer and seller.
•    Finding a trustworthy agent requires a reputation system and building reputation systems in anonymous networks remains an unsolved problem.

Fortunately, two party escrow made possible by (another coin) multi-signature transactions can solve all of these problems.

Anyway I'm not worried as much because I believe ICM said in his system there will be no instances of a marketplace owner having access to the cash where he can just run off with the reserves. I think they just handle disputes and collect a fee after.

That's funny. Why would a vendor or a market would want to crush his ratings in 3rd party system? I would request a payback and simply don't ship the item. Can computer solve my problem? No.

Maybe in theory, but in practice 2 party just doesn't work that cleanly.

Well, what is the backup plan than? For example, the shipped item is damaged, used but listed as non-used etc. Who's gonna save the buyers ass?

The Treasury Department suggested that the use of virtual currencies by criminals looking to launder illicit gains may serve as an example for terrorism funders. The report outlined how "the U.S. Secret Service has observed that criminals are looking for and finding virtual currencies that offer anonymity for both users and transactions".

Someone told here how to connect using i2p few weeks ago.