OpenBazaar 2.0 Now Running on Tor Network

OpenBazaar, the decentralized marketplace has spread across 183 countries. The announcement was made earlier yesterday by the company on its Twitter channel. The project, started small in a hackathon has now become an international product fueling global e-commerce, in a decentralized fashion. The OpenBazaar platform has achieved the remarkable success of becoming a global product in less than a month of its launch. The platform was opened for public on the 4th of this month. There has been no turning back for the platform since then. While OpenBazaar accepts the only bitcoin as the....

Many people in the Bitcoin community see OpenBazaar as the next iteration of darknet marketplaces, but the first version of this network will not be suitable for those attempting to sell goods or services in an anonymous manner. During a recent guest appearance at the Coinscrum Members Club, OB1 CEO and OpenBazaar project lead Brian Hoffman discussed anonymity on the OpenBazaar network, and he noted that these features have been deferred to a future section of the development roadmap. At one point during the Q&A session, Hoffman stated, “Right now, it’s fairly obvious, based on your....

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....

Earlier this month, a Tor pull request “Tor #342” was submitted to OpenBazaar’s open source code repository on Github with an aim of providing increased anonymity and privacy to users on the OpenBazaar bitcoin marketplace. On February 15, the OpenBazaar development team officially completed the review and merging process of the pull request, integrating Tor into the network. The integration of Tor is a part of a larger network reconstruction led by the OpenBazaar development team in order to increase efficiency of the network, change the coding language of the platform, introduce built-in....

Decentralized Bitcoin marketplace, OpenBazaar, is nearing open beta release and will be holding an exhibit at the d10e conference in Amsterdam, February 17-19. They’ll be presenting in the main conference and running a smaller event of their own on the 19th, showcasing their standalone app. This marks an enormous milestone in the project’s maturity. Originally a darknet hackathon proof-of-concept, OpenBazaar has been in active development since the spring of 2014, and it’s come a long way since then. Upon inception, the marketplace was explicitly for darknet use, aimed at solving the....