[ANN][AIRDROP][BOUNTY] Libre Bazaar: A Decentralized Anonymous Marketplace

I only have 50 character signature, how can I add your signature? Huh

Apologies, only Jr. Members and above can join the signature campaign.

Quote from: SixFigures on October 05, 2017, 10:39:56 AM

When you say that items are going to be voted on by the community via the blockchain, does that mean that every single product or listing itself is publicly visible? Otherwise, they couldn't be voted on. And can I list an item straight on your marketplace or does there first have to be vote about that?

There will be private listings but by default every listing will be public and can be seen at the marketplace directly. However, in case a seller stops responding to messages or stop shipping orders then this will be publicly visible to all users and buyers who have already placed their orders or potential buyers planning to place order and holding LBC will be able to vote against the seller and once minimum threshold have been reached then final decision will be made based on the seller stats (current + past history), number of voters and LBT (then LBC) held by each of them, considering all these factors item will be removed from the marketplace.

To accept an order sellers needs to have LBC in their wallets that is equivalent to the total price of an order. In case an item is removed, LBC belonging to the buyers that are in escrow will be refunded to them whereas LBC in escrow that belonged to the sellers will be burned. Demand for LBC goes up whenever an item is removed from the marketplace. However, sellers have a strong incentive to ensure that their listing doesn't gets removed with any pending orders.

And how will those private listings work or who can make use of that? Is that some premium function then or does it depend on the nature of the product? What happens if someone wants to sell illegal products? It wouldn't be bad if it was publicly visible, but if there is a private function then that might lead to a lot of abuse. Both ways could lead to bad results, I know.

You might not want to make your item available to everyone so private listings will allow accessing a single item and / or group of items that are not accessible directly at the marketplace and you need to have a secret address to access these listings. However, they will follow the same rule for item removal as is the case for public listings so let's say if someone lists an illegal items privately and shares its address on a blog to abuse the market's anonymity features then even then the listing can be accessed and removed from the marketplace through community consensus.

Quote from: Vangardo on October 06, 2017, 06:59:44 PM

Please explain in more detail how to participate? how payments are made. When will it go to the stock exchanges.

Please read instructions to join the airdrop and / or signature campaign. Pre-ICO will be held in later half of Fall 2017 and the tokens will be listed on exchanges after completion of the pre-ICO. No firm timelines are available at the moment but tentatively LBT will be listed within 2 weeks after completion of the pre-ICO.

Ok so every item will be attached to an address. And once any person shares that address, everyone else actually knows what kind of item is currently listed on your marketplace and could vote for removing that item. Is there an up vote and down vote function so to say for any product? If that was the case, your platform could actually deliver very interesting info to authorities when it comes to illegal products. Not necessarily in terms of identities, but just statistics.

Private listings will be attached to an address as they won't be accessible from anywhere else in the marketplace and users can up / down vote products that have been listed both privately and publicly. Sales figure, votes / ratings and reviews against all products will be publicly visible for both public listings as well as private listings as long as you can access these listings through the secret address.

But only those with access to the private listing can up vote or down vote an item I assume? The thing is that a privately listed item is unlikely to be down voted, since those who are granted access are probably those with an interest in the product. Again, how about illegal products? If those are privately listed, let's say child porn, is there any built-in security measure to prevent those goods from being traded on your platform? I feel there can't be. This is not to say that your platform is bad, I just ask out of interest whether you came up with some thoughts already about that or not?