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The Zokos Beta – Free OpenBazaar Store Service(zokos.com)
2 points by SamPatt 8y ago|0 comments
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by SamPatt 8y ago
I second the approach of using text files and syncthing. Using a markdown editor on my phone and computers means I've always got access to view, edit and create new ones, even offline, that all sync up when I'm back online. It wor
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by SamPatt 8y ago
Just because people go back to discredited ideas doesn't mean they weren't discredited. Malthus - and later Ehrlich - made specific predictions about the sustainability of population increase, and they were proven flat out wrong.
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by SamPatt 8y ago
This is where cryptocurrency is meant to come in. No reliance on third parties needed. Infrastructure still being built but things like OpenBazaar are out there.
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by SamPatt 8y ago
OpenBazaar isn't the only decentralized marketplace out there, but it is the only one with any significant adoption. It took four years to get there so rebuilding from scratch seems unwise when it's open source and you could add y
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by SamPatt 8y ago
OpenBazaar started in 2014.
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by SamPatt 8y ago
You can use an address and not just the whole country. But yes, OpenBazaar currently isn't built for local communities. A feature we want to add eventually.
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by SamPatt 8y ago
Not used. I was in the very early versions of OpenBazaar.
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by SamPatt 8y ago
As others have pointed out in this thread, the software part is more or less already built. It's called OpenBazaar. And you're right that adoption is the hardest part. OpenBazaar has had about 55k people using it since last Novemb
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by SamPatt 8y ago
There are two types of payments in OpenBazaar: direct and moderated. Direct is when buyers completely trust vendors. There's no escrow and no safety net at all. Moderated is when both parties agree to a third party moderator and the fu
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by SamPatt 8y ago
And?
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by SamPatt 8y ago
I work on OpenBazaar. It has grown significantly over the past couple years. I'm mobile and don't have the stats in front of me but I do know that the network has been used by more than 55k people since last November when the 2.0
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by SamPatt 8y ago
We would absolutely welcome attempts to integrate other forms of payment into OpenBazaar. Our escrow system currently relies on multisig but that's the only significant impediment to adoption.
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by SamPatt 8y ago
OpenBazaar is over four years old now. It didn't emerge out of blockchain hype. Cryptocurrency means it can be completely peer to peer and not reliant on any payment processing platforms, and with multisig is allows for powerful escrow
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by SamPatt 8y ago
I work on OpenBazaar and want to add that we've built it to support people creating custom front end clients for their own particular use case and are not compelled at all to use the reference client. So they can use the OpenBazaar bac
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by SamPatt 8y ago
Instead of having a bunch of proprietary, centralized markets for each service, why not create an open source, p2p protocol for trade and let anyone offer anything they want? Rhetorical question. It's called OpenBazaar and it's al
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by SamPatt 8y ago
Agreed. Their service is great.
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by SamPatt 9y ago
Safekeeping of keys is not a solved problem. There is something nefarious about trying to set precedent when the precedent is conscripting companies into the surveillance state. They lied about their capabilities in order to force a company
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by SamPatt 9y ago
>what you actually built is a network for trade that no one controls That's true in the same sense that no one controls the internet. People can control their own portion of the network, they can ban peers and report listings to sea
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by SamPatt 9y ago
The app is very easy to download and run: https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-desktop/releases But if you can't be bothered then there is a search engine as well: https://blockbooth.com/s
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by SamPatt 9y ago
I do appreciate the word of caution. I've gone beyond the point where any given act of self-censorship is more beneficial than speaking the truth of the situation. My position: over the next few generations, adoption of decentralized t
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by SamPatt 9y ago
There are very few totally distributed applications out there, and no social networks ones that I'm aware that have any traction. I think Diaspora is the closest: https://diasporafoundation.org
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by SamPatt 9y ago
Clone away! Mirroring or torrenting the packages is also a good idea: https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-desktop/releases
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by SamPatt 9y ago
I view it similarly to the creation of BitTorrent. Yes, it was used to facilitate illegal activity, but the creators of the technology themselves didn't host the infrastructure or break the law. We shouldn't be afraid to build new
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by SamPatt 9y ago
Mastodon is federated, yes? I think Diaspora is distributed. But I haven't used either in a while.
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by SamPatt 9y ago
Each step in the transaction flow appends a new step - digitally signed - into a JSON document that acts as a ledger. So the seller puts out the listing and the buyers signs it and sends the funds. The seller won't proceed with the ord
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by SamPatt 9y ago
The biggest part of the community is cryptocurrency users so I know some of the sales are related to cryptocurrency swag and electronics. There are quite a few artists on there as well. I know one of the biggest sellers on the 1.0 version w
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by SamPatt 9y ago
The buyer can only leave one review per purchase, it's not one review per payment.
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by SamPatt 9y ago
Yes: https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-desktop/releases
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by SamPatt 9y ago
Multisig was needed for our escrow and until recently it wasn't in Monero, so it's not integrated yet. Also ideally it would have SPV, but Monero can't do that. But I like Monero and hope it does get integrated eventually. We

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