Bitcoin-Based OpenBazaar Releases New ‘Deploy’ Program, Full Update
The forever-in-the-making OpenBazaar trading platform has been one of 2016’s bright spots in the Bitcoin space. After over a quarter of a million downloads (I was one of them) and thousands of new store ideas taking over a decentralized, user-powered digital space, it is time for a second refresh, months in the making. On Thursday, the group behind OpenBazaar known as OB1 released information on a new program they have developed called ‘Deploy,’ along with a long-awaited program update. Let’s start with the new ‘Deploy’ program first. Are you ready to Deploy? I know I am. Building an....
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Openbazaar, the decentralized marketplace over blockchain has released the latest update, adding new features and bug fixes. OpenBazaar, the decentralized marketplace built using blockchain technology has launched its latest version. The launch of OpenBazaar version 1.1.8 was announced earlier today on the platform’s official blog. According to the blog post, the latest update has lots of new features for the benefit of vendors on the platform. The new version also features few code improvements and bug fixes. A long list of changes made to the platform in its latest release includes a....
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....
The third OpenBazaar beta, "Tabriz," has been released. With this release, the OpenBazaar team starts naming releases after great bazaars from all around the world, with the first being Tabriz, a market in Iran which is one of the oldest bazaars in the Middle East. Tabriz is the first OpenBazaar release that runs on Windows. It is also available for OSX and Linux. The urgent importance of OpenBazaar, a distributed and decentralized marketplace without central servers that can be shut down by the authorities, has been emphasized as a way forward after the Silk Road 2.0 crackdown saga.....
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....