How OpenBazaar’s Early Adopters Are Testing the Online Market
Back in April 2014, DarkMarket, a decentralized anonymous marketplace with a name guaranteed to fuel the nightmares of conservatives everywhere, was forked and given a more widely acceptable title. The resulting, friendlier-sounding, OpenBazaar, was a fully functional, free to use, peer-to-peer (P2P) market platform with robust decentralized infrastructure that enabled commercial activities to be conducted outside the control of third parties. If that sounded like a formula for another illicit drugs marketplace such as the notorious Silk Road, the project lead Brian Hoffman stressed that....
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Where the online marketplace industry is going now? And does it need decentralisation at all? CoinTelegraph spoke about the issues with Brian Hoffman, project lead at the fully decentralized marketplace, OpenBazaar, and Tone Vays, head of research at BraveNewCoin. Brian Hoffman explains CT to what extent OpenBazaar has penetrated the mainstream and what will happen next: Market penetration. CoinTelegraph: Are the majority of OpenBazaar’s user base long-time online sellers or is OpenBazaar their first experience with selling? Brian Hoffman: It's a mix really. We are seeing a lot of people....
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