Show Posts
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:
