[ANN][PART] Particl ● P2P Anon Marketplaces ● RingCT ● v3 UPGRADE this summer!

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Why Particl?

Particl's mission is to empower society by fostering a new decentralized, private and democratic economy supported by its blockchain platform. This new alternative economy allows people to both earn and spend money in a completely trustless fashion as well as use and build decentralized applications that respect their rights to privacy.


✦ Particl Main Features ✦

   ➣  Core code based on Bitcoin (latest) with SegWit + Lightning Network enabled
   ➣  RingCT (peer reviewed) enabling anonymous transactions with PART
   ➣  PoS consensus with Cold Staking
   ➣  Decentralized messaging "SMSG" (based on Bitmessage)
   ➣  Decentralized Private Marketplace(s) based on SMSG + Particl blockchain


✧ PART specifications ✧

   ➣  Block time  ❯  2 min
   ➣  Actual Supply  ❯   ~9,550,000 PART
   ➣  PoS rate  ❯  3% (2% next summer)
   ➣  Security  ❯  Ledger App with Particl Qt


▨ Particl Marketplace(s) ▨

   ➣  Decentralized marketplace(s) based on SMSG  (decentralized hosting of data)
   ➣  Anyone can create a marketplace or a storefront, private or public, as he wishes
   ➣  Anonymous automatic escrow - no third party - explained
   ➣  Every order is fully anonymous, only seller and buyer knows about the exchange!
   ➣  Only small anti-spam fees for adding: listings to marketplace and marketplaces to public list
   ➣  Marketplace client can be used over Tor
   ➣  Clean and beautiful UI to make it easy for non-technical people
   ➣  Swapping bot to exchange BTC to PART in Desktop
   ➣  And many other features to look forward in app  

Know more ❯ https://particl.io/marketplace/
Download desktop with Marketplace ❯ https://particl.io/downloads/
Activate Marketplace ❯ https://particl.wiki/tutorial/market/start

✯ Development roadmap ✯

Next features for version 2.4.0 "Infinite Markets" (March/April):

   ➣  Market Management [Enabling infinite number of public or private market, accessible with a key] - explained
   ➣  Identity Management [Give the ability to change your identity on the marketplace(s), as you wish]
   ➣  Significant performance boost [Like faster download of listings]
   ➣  Lowering Listing Fees

Full roadmap ❯ https://particl.io/roadmap/


Other Links

Bug Bounties
https://particl.io/bug-bounties/

Exchanges
https://particl.io/part-exchanges/

Explorers
https://explorer.particl.io/
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/part/

Staking Pools
https://particl.wiki/learn/staking/pools#available-staking-pools

Whitepapers
https://particl.io/whitepapers/



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[rickosu]

first!

love this project. have been following it closely for years now. very much looking forward to seeing it organically grow and become an internet game-changer like torrents and bitcoin were prior to this.

[cryptoguard]

New up-to-date BCT thread, woohoo!

Particl is definitely a game-changer and one of the rare blockchain project ACTUALLY going after industries that can be improved by blockchain, not just building gimmicks for speculators! Love it, thanks for starting this new thread!

[CrowPow]

Small Team with great vision and an already working decentralized marketplace. I like this project as well and was able to do some first successfull buy orders.
Nice project  

[On Point]

Particl is the deepest of all crypto rabbit holes.

It's an innovative platform with the best (already released) use case in crypto--> You can actually use it to buy items privately... without third parties logging, leaking, stealing or selling your data. It's great watching this project deliver on its promises, over and over.

[particlChem]

I used the particl Marketplace for a bunch of sales already. Everything went well. Pretty happy with it so far. Dont forget to activate the marketplace to see the listing. Also the bot is a easy way to convert BTC to PART. It's just the beginning. Join the revolution now !

[ilog]

From speculative perspective Particl price should already be $166 USD.

You can really use it. It’s decentralised and anonymous.

PARTICL PART HAVE A REAL USE FOR A REAL PRODUCT THAT WE NEED AS CRYPTO COMMUNITY.

PARTICL OPEN INFINITE MARKETPLACE IS AN AMAZON OF CRYPTO WORLD.

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Hey hey hey. Umbra is here. Let us look into it.

[mbacoinin]

One of the very few cryptosphere projects that actually has a use case. Kudos to the Particl dev team

[On Point]

One of the very few cryptosphere projects that actually has a use case. Kudos to the Particl dev team

^Yes, this. Also a use case where anybody can participate. Right now...

[dadon]

Great to see us trying to gain a presence over here again. I have had many experiences when speaking to potential investors who knew of our project from the past but assumed it was dead because of our lack of presence here. Excited to see this perception change.

[AyouthR]

Do you know all about Particl's double deposit MAD escrow system?

✅ 100% private/anonymous
✅ 100% free of use
✅ 100% autonomous
❌ NO 3rd-party involved
❌ NO information required

Get to know it all by reading this new Particl Explained article and remember, don't forget to clap the Medium post!

👉 https://particl.news/particl-explained-double-deposit-mad-escrow-b3699dd29768

I've tried Particl and I'm very happy with it! I recommend it to everyone who wants to do anonymous transactions, buy and sell anything and everything or just staking

[buniap55]

Seems amazing where you can buy Particl How is the encrypted messaging function in Particl working Does Particl have a Marketplace open functionality

[ReD_Yaka_MoZ_]

https://youtu.be/PRxmGh24ILU

Seems amazing where you can buy Particl

Welcome on board !!! look here https://particl.io/part-exchanges/

How is the encrypted messaging function in Particl working

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https://particl.wiki/learn/market/smsg

Particl Secure Messaging (SMSG)

SecureMessaging, the DSN used to store data off-chain, is also used as the messaging protocol for the marketplace
SMSG is a decentralized P2P message mixnet where all nodes store a copy of everyone's end-to-end encrypted messages and data for a duration of 48 hours (which can be increased for a fee).

It is the default and most private DSN available for use on the platform.
The reference implementation is developed in C++ and incorporated into the Particl daemon. It operates parallel to Particl's network and is hosted on the same nodes running the blockchain.



All nodes continuously attempt to decrypt every incoming message, but can only succeed if the node is able to recalculate the HMAC hash accompanying the message. If the hash check fails, then it can not be decrypted by the node, which means the message was either fraudulent, tampered with or meant for another node.

SMSG messages are stripped from of any metadata, therefore it is impossible for anyone to extract information such as IP addresses, sender or receiver. The only metadata not stripped from SMSG messages are the hash, the encryption payload, and a temporary public key.

Cryptography
Reference format: The format for referencing data stored on the SMSG network is simple. The hash acts as the identifier and thus provides enough information for a node to retrieve the file and verify its integrity.

DSN ID   SHA256 HASH (32 bytes)
0x01   85fc17f7069acd39a5c636cd0a6530651096128da447959f5e250824857dc559

Does Particl have a Marketplace open functionality

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Particl Open Marketplace
Particl's Open Marketplace is a decentralized marketplace built with privacy at its core. It offers a low-cost, secure and scalable e-commerce experience
Buy and sell products and services from anyone else in the world without leaving a trail and using your favorite cryptocurrency.
The Particl Open Marketplace is a hybrid between blockchain and peer-to-peer technologies. It operates with no central authority or middleman and is exclusively owned and operated by its network of participants. Its decentralized nature enables new opportunities that cannot be offered by any other marketplace.

The Open Marketplace focuses on four core values: privacy, security, scalability, and absolute decentralization. It attains this goal by leveraging a combination of many different protocols. Each of these protocols contribute to Particl's core values in their own way.


Features
The Open Marketplace is private by default.
This means it automatically keeps users' identities and data private without requiring any extra step from the user. The only exception to that rule is the Tor setup which isn't enabled by default for security measures.

The Particl team is committed to only use the best privacy protocols the industry offers. It also constantly research, develop, and maintain the solutions deployed in the marketplace. As absolute privacy and security is the modus operandi of the project, it supersedes anything else. This means there is no concession made that would weaken the privacy setup of the marketplace in favor of something else.

Payments
All payments and transactions made on the Open Marketplace are untraceable by default.
This is achieved by leveraging the Confidential Transactions (CT) and RingCT capabilities of the Particl coin (PART). These two protocols are integrated as the default types of payments, as specified by the OMP.

CT and RingCT transactions have been historically used on the Cryptonote codebase. Yet, the Particl team has adapted these protocols to be compatible with the Bitcoin codebase, which is the codebase used for the PART coin. The Bitcoin codebase gives more flexibility, security, and stability to the PART coin that the Cryptonote codebase would. A good example for this is the ability for the RingCT and CT protocols to interact with smart-contracts (i.e. the Open Marketplace). The coin also uses the Bulletproofs CT protocol improvement (currently on testnet) which reduces range proofs by about 70%. This ensures marketplace payments are both anonymous and scalable at the same time.

Listings
Public listings on Particl's Open Marketplace are listings that are publicly available. Anyone can search for these listings using keywords and by navigating to the correct categories. Although these listings are public, they still offer a great level of privacy as all transactions are untraceable by default.

The only “identifiable” data public listings reveal is a unique and anonymous vendor ID. This ID cannot, however, link to any payment address or traceable identity.

No metadata
The Open Marketplace does not generate any sort of traceable data.
That much is true whether you are a buyer or a vendor. Metadata is “data about data” and can be very useful to track users. For example, pictures usually carry data such as the device used to take the picture, when it was taken, and even the precise geo-location of where the picture was taken. Any data stored off-chain on Particl's network is immediately stripped of all its metadata, making it impossible to trace people using metadata. This behavior is enabled by Particl's SMSG Data Storage Network.

IP address anonymization
IP addresses can easily be anonymized on the Open Marketplace by installing Tor and editing the configuration file of your Particl Desktop client. Doing so shields you from getting your real IP address to be broadcast to the network.

Particl Desktop currently doesn't automatically route connections through Tor for security measures. If that were the case, a new Particl Desktop version would need to be installed by the user every time Tor pushes a new update. Automatic Tor updates, on the other hand, introduce severe security vulnerabilities, especially in regards to the authenticity of the files being automatically pushed to the client.

The Particl team is aware of a few solutions to circumvent this issue. It is also looking into alternatives to Tor. Automatic IP address anonymization should make their way onto Particl Desktop in the future.

From: https://particl.wiki/learn/market/start

[AyouthR]

If you need translation for PART don't hesitate to contact me I will be happy to help.

[BeegieBoy]

Looks not bad and sounds promising. Will follow it.

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Resume Particl’s 2019 Year in Review The Year the Dream Came True


Particl’s Open Marketplace live on mainnet!

A few days ago, we’ve turned the page on 2019 and embarked into a brand new decade that’s surely going to be full of paradigm changes. Just like Particl’s first full year, 2019 has been filled with exciting milestones such as the long-awaited release, on mainnet, of the first private-by-default online marketplace in history and the arrival of completely untraceable currency transactions with the release of the first ever Bitcoin-based RingCT privacy protocol.


Dreams Do Come True
The year 2019 has been one where Particl has moved from being a project promising a very ambitious idea to a project that’s actually delivered on that promise with an actual platform that anyone can now use in real life — the Open Marketplace.


Particl’s Open Marketplace is Now Live on Mainnet It is finally here! After years of research, development, fine-tuning, refactoring, and community-testing, the Open…>>> particl.news at  https://particl.news/particls-open-marketplace-is-now-live-on-mainnet-bed75988b690


Sure, Particl’s marketplace is still early Beta software, meaning that it may not be as simple and pain-free to use as the typical online marketplaces we use every day, but the groundbreaking Particl eCommerce protocol is now out there and getting better as we move forward. As they say, the cat is out of the bag and there ain’t no stopping it!

Shortly before that moment, world-renowned security firm Quarkslab https://www.quarkslab.com/en/ released the results of their audit of Particl’s custom-built RingCT (MLSAG, more specifically) and Bulletproofs protocols. The audit came back perfect with no single issue being identified, which almost immediately led to the release of both RingCT and bulletproofs on mainnet.


RingCT & Bulletproofs Now Available on Mainnet
It’s official! As of July 16th at 12:00:00 UTC (block #488883), RingCT and Bulletproofs have been activated on the…
particl.news >>> https://particl.news/ringct-bulletproofs-now-available-on-mainnet-b97a06a56fa9

Aside from these two massive milestones, the year has been blessed by many other noteworthy milestones, accomplishments, and events.
Major 2019 Milestones

Mar. 8, 2019 — Particl Reveals Soft Rebrand > https://particl.news/particl-has-a-new-look-1b5885a0e179
Jun. 29, 2019 — Particl Wins REMTech Awards 🏅 > https://particl.news/particl-wins-the-2019-remtech-awards-popular-mention-5e2b7cd567c7
Jul. 16, 2019 — RingCT & Bulletproofs Released on Mainnet 👤 >https://particl.news/ringct-bulletproofs-now-available-on-mainnet-b97a06a56fa9
Jul. 17, 2019 — Particl’s Second Birthday 🥳 > https://particl.news/particls-second-anniversary-91e878efa3c0
Jul. 17, 2019 — Particl’s Yearly Inflation Reduces from 4% to 3% > https://particl.news/particls-second-anniversary-91e878efa3c0
Aug. 12, 2019 — Particl’s Open Marketplace is Released on Mainnet 🎉> https://particl.news/particls-open-marketplace-is-now-live-on-mainnet-bed75988b690
Nov. 14, 2019 — Particl Welcomes Bryan Woods as New Advisor > https://particl.news/particl-welcomes-spend-com-president-as-new-advisor-7afcce8c7d71
Nov. 25, 2019 — Bitcoin Integrated into Particl Desktop & the Open Marketplace > https://particl.news/particl-desktop-2-3-0-released-on-mainnet-ddca8ea1b4b0


#BUIDL Like There’s No Tomorrow
If there’s one certain thing, it’s that regardless of the 2-year long cryptocurrency “bear market”, the Particl development team has kept on working hard and push countless lines of code. Because of that, Particl was able to deliver on its two biggest promised deliverables for mainnet — the Open Marketplace and RingCT (untraceable transactions).

Particl’s Open Marketplace live on mainnet!
Yes, 2019 was a development heavy year. That is thanks to a passionate team of developers and contributors who simply won’t give up on the idea of private, free, and borderless eCommerce. They breathe and bleed Particl, and each day they help make that vision a reality and make it more and more accessible to everybody.
Together, let’s go through the 2019 development timeline. It is, of course, more than recommended to click on the links to relive those moments that made 2019 such a memorable year for Particl!

Development Timeline — How Far Have We Come!

Jan. 17, 2019 — Particl Copay Adds Bitcoin Support >https://particl.news/particl-copay-5-4-1-released-3fb50d486a44
Jan. 24, 2019 — Particl Copay Available on iOS 🍎 > https://particl.news/particl-copay-now-available-on-ios-3a1c8ebb4b
Feb. 22, 2019 — Particl Desktop 1.3.1 Released | Bug fixes and overall improvements > https://particl.news/particl-desktop-1-3-1-released-8802e7b326fb
Mar. 1, 2019 — Mainnet Hardfork | Multi-signature cold staking and paid SMSG messages (enables decentralized governance) > https://particl.news/hardfork-successful-8480249aac83
Mar. 8, 2019 — Particl Open Marketplace Alpha V.2.0 Arrives on Testnet
Apr. 11, 2019 — Multi-Wallets Released on Testnet > https://particl.news/new-particl-copay-version-released-d51c1623b313
May 6, 2019 — Particl’s Lightning Network Releases on Testnet ⚡> https://particl.news/particl-lightning-network-now-available-on-testnet-eb87a5ab65cd
May 9, 2019 — Cold Staking Arrives in on Mobile Wallet ❄️ > https://particl.news/new-particl-copay-version-released-d51c1623b313
Jul. 4, 2019 — Particl Desktop 1.4.0 Released | RingCT & Bulletproofs Readiness and Rebrand > https://particl.news/particl-desktop-1-4-released-e7af57dc4f59
Jul. 5, 2019 — Quarkslab Releases its Audit of Particl’s RingCT & Bulletproofs | PERFECT RESULTS 🌟> https://particl.news/particl-mlsag-bulletproofs-security-audit-results-3581da33455e
Jul. 10, 2019 —1st Open Marketplace Build with Private-by-Default Escrow (Blind) and the OMP Library > https://particl.news/new-open-marketplace-testnet-build-now-available-91d346da48c8
Jul. 16, 2019 — RingCT & Bulletproofs Live on Mainnet | Untraceable Transactions Now Available 👤 > https://particl.news/ringct-bulletproofs-now-available-on-mainnet-b97a06a56fa9
Jul. 17, 2019 — Particl Community Starts Publishing Market Generation Keys on Github > https://particl.news/market-key-generation-contest-e7b93ec14f60
Jul. 23, 2019 — Particl Desktop 1.4.1 Released | Bug Fixes > https://github.com/particl/particl-desktop/releases/tag/v1.4.1
Aug. 1, 2019 — First Open Marketplace Build with RingCT Escrow on Testnet > https://particl.news/new-open-marketplace-testnet-build-now-available-e35173736a4
Aug. 7, 2019 — Particl Community Voted on the Market Generation Key Used to Create the Open Marketplace > https://github.com/particl/particl-market/pull/444
Aug. 12, 2019 — Particl Desktop 2.0.0 Released | The Open Marketplace Released on Mainnet 🎉> https://particl.news/particls-open-marketplace-is-now-live-on-mainnet-bed75988b690
Aug. 12, 2019 — Particl Desktop 2.0.1 Released | Bug Fixes > https://github.com/particl/particl-desktop/releases/tag/v2.0.1
Aug. 21, 2019 — Stakers Start Reducing Marketplace Listing Fees > https://particl.news/adjusting-listing-fees-4b676e230601
Sept. 06, 2019 — Particl Desktop 2.0.2 Released | Marketplace Improvements > https://particl.news/particl-desktop-2-0-2-released-feac3a51de32
Sep. 17, 2019 — Private Cold Staking App Released | Receive Staking Rewards Anonymously > https://particl.news/private-cold-staking-script-released-d8900e193490
Sep. 23, 2019 — Particl Desktop 2.1.0 Released | Product Imports & Public Comments on Listings > https://particl.news/particl-desktop-2-1-0-released-on-mainnet-1e84cc8716f3
Nov. 13, 2019 — Particl Desktop 2.2.0 Released | Cancel bids, settings page, and UI/UX improvements > https://particl.news/particl-desktop-2-2-0-released-1a1324881cf8
Nov. 25, 2019 — Particl Desktop 2.3.0 Released | Bitcoin Payments Added > https://particl.news/particl-desktop-2-3-0-released-on-mainnet-ddca8ea1b4b0
Dec. 4, 2019 — Particl Desktop 2.3.1 Released | UI/UX Tweaks > https://particl.news/particl-desktop-2-3-1-released-451e0cb06969
Dec. 23, 2019 — Particl Desktop 2.3.2 Released | Startup & Shutdown Processes Improvements  > https://particl.news/particl-desktop-2-3-2-released-184a7fe6640c



Quite an impressive list, right? Keep in mind it doesn’t even include Particl Core releases! 🤯
Indeed, one particularly impressive aspect of Particl’s development is how it always keeps its codebase up-to-date with the latest Bitcoin codebase version. That’s to ensure Particl’s base layer benefits from all the latest Bitcoin improvements so that it can remain secure and can easily integrate any innovation happening in Bitcoin’s world. Put simply, an up-to-date codebase means security, reliability, performance, and compatibility.

And while “keeping the codebase up-to-date” may initially sound like a simple and almost robotic task, there’s definitely a reason barely any Bitcoin-based “altcoin”, if any, properly keeps its codebase up-to-date — it’s a tedious and quite complicated task. That’s because the upstream Bitcoin code needs to be made to fit and be compatible with any added component to Particl’s codebase. It couldn’t further from a simple “copy-paste process”…

This year, this translated into 19 individual core releases, a true testament to the constant hard work put in by Particl’s Core Developer & Cryptographic Researcher Tecnovert.

Particl Core Releases (19 total)
Jan. 1, 2019 — Particl Core 0.17.1.0
Feb. 6, 2019 — Particl Core 0.17.1.2
Feb. 14, 2019 — Particl Core 0.17.1.3
Mar. 7, 2019 — Particl Core 0.17.1.4
May 9, 2019 — Particl Core 0.18.0.7
Jun. 4, 2019 — Particl Core 0.18.0.8
Jun. 24, 2019 — Particl Core 0.18.0.10
Jul. 2, 2019 — Particl Core 0.18.0.11
Jul. 18, 2019 — Particl Core 0.18.0.12
Aug. 4, 2019 — Particl Core 0.18.1.0
Aug. 8, 2019 — Particl Core 0.18.1.1
Aug. 12, 2019 — Particl Core 0.18.1.2
Aug. 22, 2019 — Particl Core 0.18.1.3
Sep. 3, 2019 — Particl Core 0.18.1.4
Sep. 26, 2019 — Particl Core 0.18.1.5
Oct. 29, 2019 — Particl Core 0.19.0.1 RC2 (Pre-Release)
Oct. 31, 2019 — Particl Core 0.18.1.6
Dec. 4, 2019 — Particl Core 0.18.1.7 (Pre-Release)
Dec. 3, 2019 — Particl Core 0.19.0.1 (Pre-Release)



Particl Around the World
Another great move by Particl in 2019 was to increase its boots-on-the-ground presence by attending, sponsoring, and presenting at several blockchain conferences, events, and meetups all around the world.



Some of Particl’s team after SFBW’s Epicenter conference


Blockchain events are ideal networking opportunities for teams to find each other, build relationships, and start collaborating on multiple fronts. In that sense, they are the perfect “matchmakers”.

As such, the Particl team has made a lot of key connections with individuals and teams that will help the project make the jump from an almost exclusively development focused project to one putting much more focus into the user adoption of its platform.

It’s very important to understand one thing, though, is that these relationships built at blockchain events can take some time until they start yielding visible results. Most of the time, it takes many dozens of work hours and conference calls before things fall into place and start moving ahead. The best example of this concept is with the addition of Spend.com’s President, Bryan Woods, as new eCommerce strategic advisor for Particl.

Particl Welcomes Spend.com President as New Advisor
Bryan Woods — eCommerce Strategy and Adoption 🤝
particl.news >>> https://particl.news/particl-welcomes-spend-com-president-as-new-advisor-7afcce8c7d71


The Particl team met with Bryan at Consensus 2019, in May, and only started talking about it more publicly when it was announced at SFBW’s Epicenter, in November, that he would be joining Particl’s advisory board. Still to this day, it is too early to reveal any of what’s being worked on with him even though it’s been in the works for quite some time now.



Dr. Kap Talking at SFBW’s Epicenter


The bottom line is that these blockchain events are great to make valuable connections that, over time, will come back helping the project tremendously. The team is currently in active talks with many people and projects met at conferences and it should yield more visible results later on in 2020.
Put simply, some of the best decisions taken by the Particl team in 2019 was to attend Consensus and the San Francisco Blockchain Week (SFBW).


2019 Conferences and Events
Feb. 4, 2019 — Particl in Paris — CoinHouse 🇫🇷 > https://particl.news/particl-in-paris-presentations-at-coinhouse-a38106cdd36a
Mar. 13–14, 2019 — Particl in Hong Kong — Token2049 🇭🇰 > https://particl.news/particl-is-going-to-hong-kongs-token-2049-conference-e1fca540740b
May 11–12, 2019 — Particl in NYC — Magical Crypto Conference 🇺🇸 >https://particl.news/particl-in-nyc-magical-crypto-conference-2019-459c1f868522
May 13–15, 2019 — Particl in NYC — Consensus 🇺🇸 > https://particl.news/particl-in-nyc-consensus-2019-3f6671bd2aa6
June 25–26, 2019 — Particl in San Francisco — Bitcoin2019 🇺🇸 > https://particl.news/particl-in-san-francisco-bitcoin2019-571fe31fe396
Oct. 28–29, 2019 — Particl in Vegas — Money2020 🇺🇸 > https://particl.news/particl-world-tour-2019-f6e3d3c7e09c
Oct. 30, 2019 — Particl in Vegas — World Crypto Conference 🇺🇸 >https://particl.news/particl-world-tour-2019-f6e3d3c7e09c
Oct. 28-Nov. 3, 2019 — Particl in San Francisco — SFBW 🇺🇸 > https://particl.news/particl-in-san-francisco-sfbw-2019-bdaf0426349a
Nov. 14, 2019 — Particl in Singapore — Blockshow 🇸🇬 > https://particl.news/particl-world-tour-2019-f6e3d3c7e09c
Nov. 21–22, 2019 — Particl in Finland — Slush Helsinki 🇫🇮 > https://particl.news/particl-in-finland-slush-helsinki-1383c1d083c3


What Can We Take Back From 2019?
Last year was a year of straight-up delivery with both Particl’s long-awaited Open Marketplace and RingCT (with Bulletproofs) going live on mainnet. More importantly, 2019 will forever be the year where private, free, and borderless eCommerce became a reality for everyone. A very important milestone in human commerce’s history when you think of it…

It’s also a year where it became obvious that simply pushing innovative and unique blockchain code just doesn’t cut it alone for a project to see great success and get decent exposure. And that’s okay, even great, because it signals that the industry is becoming more mature and wants to see blockchain products finally get some “real-world adoption”. That’s the metaphorical “blockchain killer product”, and that’s precisely why Particl is bound to shine moving forward!

In fact, the Open Marketplace is a unique offering — it offers unmatched privacy in eCommerce and allows sellers and buyers to connect directly and safely transact by paying almost no fee at all. It takes third-parties (marketplace operator, payment processor, web host, etc) totally out of the eCommerce process and secures the user’s data and personal information at every step of the way, a perk that’s definitely becoming more and more valuable in an era of ever-increasing data mining, breaches, and identity thefts.

Particl’s Adoption
Yet, the level of adoption of the marketplace is still relatively low at this moment, a surprising fact for some. That’s due to a few reasons both internal and external to Particl, and luckily none of these reasons should really sound the alarm bell.

Some of these reasons are directly due to Particl itself. In fact, the Open Marketplace is still very much an early Beta software and is simply not ready for mass adoption just yet. After all, it more than clearly says so in the marketplace’s header banner on Particl Desktop.

As a matter of fact, some of the processes as well as the user interface of the marketplace are still relatively complicated for most people to use. The marketplace also lacks a few important features usually expected by either buyers or sellers on traditional online marketplaces. In reality, any significant amount of money invested towards aggressive user adoption campaigns would more than likely result in a poor user adoption rates simply due to the earliness of Particl’s product. Getting people to peek around is one thing, getting them to become Particl marketplace users is another thing entirely.

Some of the reasons are also external to Particl. For example, the more than two-year-long cryptocurrency “bear market” surely hasn’t really encouraged long-term cryptocurrency holders to spend their coins the same way a “bull market” would…

A New Roadmap is on the Way
The very good news is that the Particl team is very aware of its marketplace’s bottlenecks! With Market Management, a very major marketplace update, coming out in a few weeks, it will mark the completion of a very high-level overview of what the marketplace was initially imagined to be — an open eCommerce network populated by an infinite amount of markets. In other words, the release of Market Management marks the end of a very particular development phase for the project.

That being said, that also means that it marks the very beginning of a new development phase, one that will be all about building the right features and tools for its targeted users. This new phase will also be all about increasing the marketplace’s accessibility, ease of use, and user interface as much as possible. In simple terms, this new phase is all about eliminating any reason why most people would not buy and/or sell on Particl.


Buckle Up!
In the next few days, multiple blog posts will be published on Particl.news. They will be a deep dive into the marketplace’s current status, its level of adoption, and current bottlenecks. They will also explain, in detail, the reasoning behind the Particl team’s strategy moving forward as it jumps in this new decade with both feet. This mini blog post series will ultimately culminate with the exciting reveal of the new Particl roadmap! Get ready, as the new roadmap is more than likely to blow a few people’s minds! 😉

Source: https://particl.news/particls-2019-year-in-review-e456b0a19819

[HastaLaVistaBaby]

Request for registration of Particl (PART) on Binance and Coinbase in progress.

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[AyouthR]

Request for registration of Particl (PART) on Binance and Coinbase in progress.

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