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July 11, 2025, 05:25:19 AM
Last edit: July 11, 2025, 06:09:05 AM by AG0RA
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Hello BitcoinTalk!

Since over a year now, we have been working on building up the AGORA – a Bitcoin-only, peer-to-peer marketplace that live in the realms of Stacker.news. We inherit the idea and since then we have been taking care of growing it, ensuring and structuring the various functionalities to be available for those merchants, private sellers and buyers that aim to trade freely, without intermediaries, fees, and friction.


📣You can experience it here:
https://stacker.news/~AGORA

📙 All the Tutorials, Guidelines, Tips & Tricks here:
https://stacker.news/items/942038


What's possible now:
The main idea was to use existing posting functionalities to advertise and share listings and classifieds posts, ideally introducing the idea of Ad-posts type in the stacker.news platform. I cannot negate, that the BitcoinTalk > Marketplace has been inspiring us, providing with solid references to grow the idea with.

Specifically for the AGORA, here are the current list of available posts we have structured, the user simply needs to add a [TAG] in the title that allows the community to identify the type of ad shared:

- [⚖️ SELL] your stuff.
- [🛒 BUY] stuff for sats.
- [🧑‍💻 HIRE]some stuff or skills.
- [🖇 OFFER] something.
- [🧑‍⚖️ AUCTION]s at your own discretion. Dutch?
- [🤝 SWAP] Peer to Peer.
- You could also give it for [🆓 FREE], ideal for giveaway or gifts.
- Start your own [SHOPFRONT] or simply...
- [⭐ REVIEW] anything


What we are working on:

We realize this is still an early stage idea, we miss a lot of functionalities SN is not able to offer, and we never know it will. The whole idea could have the potential to fail, depending on how we structure and maintain it. But again, BitcoinTalk Marketplace has demonstrated that this idea could live in other forum too, so we will continue working to increase our trust within the community, and ensure stackers can trade safely and anonymously with Bitcoin, P2P, as it supposed to be!

Future improvements:
- Ensure and educate users to communicate anonymously, ideally using nostr protocol messages clients or other encrypted messaging systems.
- Provide an optional on-request escrow service that can help build trust and safeguard buyers and sellers when required.
- Promotion and presence in other social media and platforms, helping people anywhere to discover and learn more about bitcoin, privacy and how to trade P2P

What else are we missing? Will be great to hear your opinion. And if there's any BitcoinTalk Marketplace moderator reading this, your feedback and insights would be much appreciated and valuable.

👉 Try AGORA now & share feedback below:
https://stacker.news/~AGORA

Let’s Build the Future of Bitcoin Commerce
AGORA isn’t just a marketplace – it’s a community focusing in business, commerce best practices following bitcoin values and ethos. An economy experiment. Your input will shape its evolution. Rip it apart, stress-test it, and tell us how to make it bulletproof!

Questions? Critiques? Wild ideas?
→ Reply below! We’re all ears.

Stay humble, stack sats!
The AGORA Builders

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July 11, 2025, 05:36:22 AM
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Are you guys related to the Agoradesk team by any chance?

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July 11, 2025, 05:52:33 AM
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Are you guys related to the Agoradesk team by any chance?

Not at all, the ancient name and the fact that we both run a marketplace is the only common thing we share I guess! Our idea is to enable trade of any kind, Agoradesk was specifically a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency OTC desk. So much different idea.
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July 11, 2025, 06:33:49 PM
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Why did you post onion link for your website when it is not working?

Code:
http://snsnsnya6h3ot563f3p566wuhfoklkg5f62hokdlaqzcaub3gf4xlxyd.onion/

I don't use stacker news and I don't want to create new accounts just for testing Agora marketplace.
I see that forum is connected with Lightning Network, and I don't support that project.


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July 11, 2025, 07:13:55 PM
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Thanks for your feedback. I totally understand your concerns. I did not share any onion link, where have you found it? SN website footer? It is currently known that the onion link is not working as expected, is actually simply mirroring the current site as plain HTML, which is fine for read only, but you can't sigin, post anything or give merits. The team is working on it and hopefully will be available soon via Tor.

Regarding the lightning network, that is simply one of the options, you can still join SN and don't touch lighting at all. Sign in could be done anonymously with nostr keys (and nos2x browser extension) and a VPN to protect your IP.

The AGORA is simply a place to share offers and post ads, and talk about private and honorable business and commerce, exactly like the Marketplace does here in BitcoinTalk. Payments need to be dealt P2P, outside the platform. We are planning to offer optional escrow service for those of us that want to trade with peace of mind.

Any further feedback or suggestion id more than welcome
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