OpenBazaar Teases Beautiful, New User Interface
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....
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OpenBazaar released it’s open beta officially on the bitcoin testnet today, marking the launch of the first truly decentralized Bitcoin marketplace. The OpenBazaar team is encouraging potential merchants and users to try out the 1.0 release to get familiar with its workings and interface. The software is fully functional for the first time, and whether you plan on selling or buying on the OpenBazaar network, the release is worth a look. Testnet Launch Removes Risk for Potential OpenBazaar Adopters. If you want to try out OpenBazaar, you’ll need a testnet enabled wallet, and some testnet....
OpenBazaar, the decentralized e-commerce platform, has partnered with ShapeShift allowing users to buy products with their favorite altcoins. OpenBazaar: Altcoins Now Accepted. OpenBazaar has announced the release of its 1.1.10 version. The new integration of the Shifty Button, a free to use and open-source tool created by ShapeShift, now allows customers to buy products with various altcoins such as Monero, Ether and over thirty others. The new option might certainly come in handy for users wanting to hold on to their bitcoin as it shoots past $800. OpenBazaar CEO Brian Hoffman states:....
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....
OpenBazaar has just run the first successful test on its upcoming version 2.0, designed to run on the Tor privacy network. OpenBazaar on Tor. Developer Chris Pacia connected to OpenBazaar over Tor using an alpha version of the upcoming v2.0 software in his lab. This version of OpenBazaar is not complete, and is only shown here as command line code.....
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....