A New Version of OpenBazaar is Just Months Away
A new version of the distributed e-commerce platform OpenBazaar could be released in a matter of months, according to members of its senior development team. Speaking at CoinDesk's Construct 2017 conference in San Francisco yesterday, CEO Brian Hoffman and senior developer Chris Pacia revealed new details about both the project's user traction and the features that will be built into upcoming version, dubbed OpenBazaar 2.0. In remarks, the developers said they plan to integrate the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) to boost store uptime, improve dispute resolution and inventory management,....
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OpenBazaar has just run the first successful test on its upcoming version 2.0, designed to run on the Tor privacy network. OpenBazaar on Tor. Developer Chris Pacia connected to OpenBazaar over Tor using an alpha version of the upcoming v2.0 software in his lab. This version of OpenBazaar is not complete, and is only shown here as command line code.....
OpenBazaar is an online decentralized bitcoin marketplace expected to launch its beta version soon. Chris Pacia has recently shared the latest video of the marketplace's desktop client. OpenBazaar, the decentralized online marketplace will soon be out as a beta release. The much-awaited bitcoin marketplace will be out in the public during the upcoming d10e Conference at Amsterdam next week. The preview of OpenBazaar is out on Youtube. Chris Pacia, one of the contributors of OpenBazaar has uploaded the video where he shows how the desktop client works. Chris has posted the desktop video....
OpenBazaar, the decentralized e-commerce platform, has partnered with ShapeShift allowing users to buy products with their favorite altcoins. OpenBazaar: Altcoins Now Accepted. OpenBazaar has announced the release of its 1.1.10 version. The new integration of the Shifty Button, a free to use and open-source tool created by ShapeShift, now allows customers to buy products with various altcoins such as Monero, Ether and over thirty others. The new option might certainly come in handy for users wanting to hold on to their bitcoin as it shoots past $800. OpenBazaar CEO Brian Hoffman states:....
With an announcement today, decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace OpenBazaar is open for business, in its first full version released and available for downloads. It has been nearly two years since initial chatter arose, with word of a decentralized marketplace being developed in time for a public beta in 2014. In the following years, the decentralized, unregulated and open-source marketplace went through multiple betas. Now, OpenBazaar sees its first full version launched today in a public release, moving beyond the beta phase. While the release isn’t feature-packed to fully satisfy....
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....