Bitcoin Market OpenBazaar Sweeps 2016 Blockchain Awards
Online bitcoin-enabled marketplace OpenBazaar was the big winner at the 2016 Blockchain Awards, sponsored by Blockchain and presented at the Coin Center Annual Dinner. Combined, OpenBaazar and OB1, the development firm that supports the platform, won three of the five awards offered on Monday night, including "Best New Startup", "Bitcoin Champion of the Year" and "Most Promising Consumer Application". The announcement, propelled by CoinDesk reader voting, caps off what has been a few months of significant momentum for the OpenBazaar platform. Launching in....
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The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), a popular free-market think tank, announced on Facebook that it has set-up an OpenBazaar extension to its traditional online store. On June 6, 2016, the official facebook page of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) posted about their OpenBazaar store, saying “This is technology that puts the power of....
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....
The Blockchain Awards, last held in 2014, are returning as part of the first Coin Center Annual Dinner. This gala affair, held in New York City alongside Consensus 2016, will be an evening for the digital currency and blockchain community to come together and celebrate a year of achievement in moving this promising technology forward. The awards will highlight companies and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the digital currency and blockchain industry over the last year. Awards will be made in the following categories: Bitcoin Champion of the Year. Best New Startup.....
The two organizations, Blockchain and the Bitcoin Foundation are trying to award those entities that are encouraging users to adapt Bitcoin and helping out the digital currency big way. Now, the two organizations have introduced the inaugural Blockchain Awards. In an announcement they say that the first annual Blockchain Awards will be given in May. The announcement came when the two organizations said that they want to celebrate innovation and excellence in the Bitcoin community with the awards. Co-presented by the Bitcoin Foundation and Blockchain.info, this inaugural awards ceremony....