BitMarkets Beats OpenBazaar to Market - for OSX, Anyway
BitMarkets is an already-launched P2P marketplace similar to the much-touted OpenBazaar. Its protocol integrates Bitcoin for buying and selling, but its client software is currently only available for Mac OSX. Regarding compatibility with other operating systems, lead developer Steve Dekorte says: BitMarkets is just one product in Dekorte's wider umbrella at Voluntary.net. Also included is a customized Bitmessage client for BitMarkets called BitPost, as well as a Tor relay node customization program called TorBar. Dekorte spoke with CoinTelegraph about BitMarkets and Voluntary.net's....
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As many in the Bitcoin community already know, OpenBazaar is a completely open marketplace that directly connects customers to merchants. Users can buy and sell practically anything imaginable without any censorship or regulations. Furthermore, due to the market's decentralisation, OpenBazaar can never be shut down by a central authority the way Silk Road was shut down. While OpenBazaar makes it easy to establish an online black market, it also has legitimate uses for people in authoritarian and/or underbanked countries. Similar concepts have already existed, but OpenBazaar has seen the....
Described as the "BitTorrent of eCommerce", OpenBazaar is a fork of DarkMarket. Like it's predecessor, OpenBazaar is an open source proof-of-concept decentralized marketplace that aims to be highly censorship resistant. OpenBazaar leverages the Bitcoin protocol as the means to accomplish this via peer-to-peer nodes loosely based on Kademlia. What's more, is that there will be no fees involved to trade within the OpenBazaar marketplace; whereby allowing sellers to escape the restrictiveness and unheavenly fees imposed by eBay. OpenBazaar Ricardian Contracts. Another intriguing aspect that....
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OpenBazaar will be like a Silk Road that no one can shut down. OpenBazaar is an upcoming open-source, decentralised, and unregulated online marketplace. Similar to other projects such as Open Transactions and DarkMarket (OpenBazaar is actually a fork of DarkMarket), OpenBazaar is often described as the "BitTorrent of eCommerce", as it allows for an uncensored, peer-to-peer shopping experience with Bitcoin. Users will be able to buy and sell literally anything - raw milk, flash drives, books, anything imaginable. Of course, being an unregulated marketplace, it should go without saying that....