SamPatt

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by SamPatt 9y ago
His opposition is largely against legislation forcing people to use people's preferred pronouns, which is a position any defender of free speech should agree with.
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by SamPatt 9y ago
Have you looked into BitMessage?
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by SamPatt 9y ago
>they have extremely high standards for publishing a story, so you can generally assume that they're accurate Dangerous assumption for any given story. Skepticism always warranted.
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by SamPatt 9y ago
OpenBazaar has been around since mid-2014, and this 2.0 release has same major advancements. It's a separate network from the 1.0 version. I've been working on it since it began, and it's been mentioned on HN a few times but
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Show HN: OpenBazaar 2.0 launches; decentralized marketplace using Bitcoin(openbazaar.org)
9 points by SamPatt 9y ago|1 comments
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by SamPatt 9y ago
In practice most vendors choose from the top moderators on the platform who all have good reputations, so it's not as dangerous as it sounds. If a vendor only offers unknown moderators a buyer just won't buy from them, or will ask
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by SamPatt 9y ago
Currently the vendor selects a list of moderators they are comfortable working with, and then at the time of a sale the buyer selects the one they prefer. If a dispute is opened the moderator the buyer picked from the vendor's list wil
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by SamPatt 9y ago
The contracts between users are all cryptographically signed in a system called Ricardian Contracts. At any point each party has a digitally signed copy of all the information they need to proceed with the trade. Because this is a protocol
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by SamPatt 9y ago
I responded to this elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15561370
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by SamPatt 9y ago
They are built on top of those technologies, but the user isn't exposed to any of the technical complexities. Seriously, go to openbazaar.org and download it, see for yourself.
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by SamPatt 9y ago
You're right. We're about to launch a mobile app and working on getting it working on browser as well. Bitcoin is a barrier but our goal is to eventually be currency agnostic. It does enable us to do escrow properly though with 2-
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by SamPatt 9y ago
They didn't invest in OpenBazaar, they invested in OB1, the company who is leading development on OpenBazaar. I'm a co-founder of OB1 and we monetize by offering services to users on the platform, not by monetizing the platform di
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by SamPatt 9y ago
For the payments layer, yes, but not for storing the actual marketplace data. Blockchains aren't great for storing data apart from maintaining a transaction ledger. When we started building OpenBazaar we specifically avoided using a bl
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by SamPatt 9y ago
Buyers can place orders one of two ways: 1. A direct order. The Bitcoin goes directly from buyer to vendor. There are no protections. This method is only used for small value transactions or transactions where the buyer trusts the vendor. 2
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by SamPatt 9y ago
>If this already exists, do tell. Yes, it does exist, and it's completely open source. It's called OpenBazaar, and it's a fully decentralized marketplace. There's no middlemen at all. https://www.openbazaar
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by SamPatt 9y ago
I run the main OB store, and I haven't noted problems selling. One of the difficulties of running a p2p network is that you cannot control how up to date the software is from other peers. We try to keep as much compatibility as possibl
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Why OpenBazaar Token Doesn’t Exist(blog.openbazaar.org)
38 points by SamPatt 9y ago|9 comments
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by SamPatt 9y ago
Traffic is end to end encrypted, but since all nodes are self-hosted (or run on a VPS) Tor gives some privacy. It also protects against denial of service attacks.
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by SamPatt 9y ago
We've gotten a few reports of this now, we're looking into it.
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by SamPatt 9y ago
The development pace is pretty feverish, so no guarantees, but you should be able to play around with these week-old test builds: https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-desktop/releases/ta... Edit: Note tha
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by SamPatt 9y ago
That's in the 2.0 version (about to launch), but the current version doesn't support Tor.
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by SamPatt 9y ago
OpenBazaar is a completely p2p network. Since there's no middleman, there's no infrastructure to pay to maintain. People buy and sell stuff directly with each other, so it really is truly free.
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by SamPatt 9y ago
The platform itself has no fees. No cost to use the platform. There are fees associated with using Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.
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by SamPatt 9y ago
Sorry about that, we're looking into it now.
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by SamPatt 9y ago
I'm not one of the developers, who would be able to answer this definitively (you can join our slack if you like to ask). But I believe it's accomplished by using IPNS for some of the calls instead of IPFS, to ensure that the data
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by SamPatt 9y ago
Keep in mind that OpenBazaar has been used for over a year now, and only a small minority of the trade has been illicit. Most people just want a platform where they can buy / sell in crypto and avoid marketplace fees. We built OpenBaza
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by SamPatt 9y ago
The current version actually doesn't, but the 2.0 version launching soon does work with Tor.
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by SamPatt 9y ago
OpenBazaar is not a site at all. People run it on the machine locally and are connected to others in a p2p network. No middleman involved, no fees paid (except BTC network fees on transactions).
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by SamPatt 9y ago
OpenBazaar itself is not a for-profit project, and it predates the formation of the OB1 company by a year. OB1 has a plan for monetization (I'm a co-founder!) but OpenBazaar itself is designed as a neutral trade protocol and network th
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by SamPatt 9y ago
There is a built-in escrow, which uses Bitcoin 2-of-3 multisignature. This means that if both buyer and seller are happy, they are the only two of three parties needed to release funds, but if either of the parties is unhappy they can bring

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