Bitcoin-Powered Marketplace OpenBazaar Raises $3 Million
The developers behind OpenBazaar, the open-source marketplace protocol powered by bitcoin, have raised $3m in new funding. The new round was led by BlueYard, a Berlin-based VC fund with a focus on early-stage startups that has strongly indicated its support for decentralized markets in the past. VC giants Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures also took part. OpenBazaar is like a decentralized eBay, connecting buyers and sellers directly through an application-based marketplace. But instead of PayPal or credit cards, the market utilizes bitcoin as a medium of exchange. The project....
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OB1, the company behind the bitcoin-powered decentralized marketplace OpenBazaar has raised $3 million in new funding, furthering the development of an eBay-like marketplace detached from the trappings of intermediaries or fees associated with PayPal and payment cards. Announced yesterday, OpenBazaar’s latest round of funding was led by BlueYard Capital, a Berlin-based venture capital firm that focuses on early stage funding of decentralized-centric startups. The VC firm points to existing platforms such as Amazon, Alibaba and eBay as centralized, controlled marketplaces that are....
OpenBazaar has raised US$1 million in seed funding with the help of Andreesen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, and angel investor William Mougayar. OpenBazaar, which just launched its fifth beta release, is the much-anticipated decentralized market to bitcoin's decentralized money. Online commerce relies on many intermediaries, such as PayPal, but OpenBazaar allows users to conduct trade one-on-one with the help of notaries, multisignature transactions, and a reputation system. The seed funding will be used to pay the developers so that they can work full time on the project and speed up....
OpenBazaar announced that it received $1 million in seed funding from Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and angel investor William Mougayar to develop the OpenBazaar protocol and client. OpenBazaar is an open-source project to create a decentralized network for peer-to-peer (P2P) commerce online - using bitcoin - that has no fees and cannot be censored. It can be seen as a distributed, decentralized version of eBay powered by P2P technologies such as BitTorrent and Bitcoin."OpenBazaar is a different approach to online commerce," states the OpenBazaar website. "It puts the power....
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....