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1  Bitcoin / Project Development / [ANN] OpenBazaar - A Decentralized Market Platform on: September 03, 2014, 01:16:43 PM


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:


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:


Update #1:
  • Instructions for setting up and running an OpenBazaar node on a VPS:
https://blog.openbazaar.org/guide-how-to-setuprun-an-openbazaar-node-on-a-vps/
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