OpenBazaar is a decentralized marketplace proof of concept. It is based off of the POC code by the darkmarket team and protected by the GPL.

See a demonstration of the Proof Of Concept here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHVqH8XO1Pk#t=86 Try out a demonstration at: http://seed.openbazaar.org:8888

This project is alpha and all feedback is welcome at: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/23y80c

Official site: http://openbazaar.org (currently a placeholder)

We are continually on IRC chat at #OpenBazaar on Freenode

• Full market editor for management of items catalog
• Order management system
• Escrow-based transactions
• Arbiter management
• Private messaging
• Identity/Reputation system

All features are currently in alpha stage. Current functionality includes starting a connection to the distributed marketplace and viewing content in a browser. Transactions are not possible.

These instructions download a VirtualBox image (Ubuntu Trusty) and use Vagrant to configure an OpenBazaar node inside the virtual environment. When the node is running, you can navigate to http://localhost:8888 on your local machine to access the client. This setup should take less than 10GB and about an hour. These instructions should include all necessary code for starting OpenBazaar.

1. This example is built on an Ubuntu Trusty host. Doesn't work from inside a virtual machine.

   sudo apt-get update

   sudo apt-get install virtualbox git vagrant

2. clone openbazaar:

   git clone https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar.git

   cd OpenBazaar

3. Set up vagrant: (this will take a while!)

   vagrant up

4. Log into the vagrant instance:

   vagrant ssh

5. Start the OpenBazaar node:

   cd /vagrant && ./run_dev.sh

6. Now return to your host and open your web browser to:

   http://127.0.0.1:8888

NOTE: These dependencies are for reference, they do not need to be manually installed if the Quick Start guide is used.

• https://github.com/warner/python-ecdsa
• https://github.com/darkwallet/python-obelisk
• MongoDB

pip install pyzmq pip install tornado pip install pyelliptic pip install pymongo

1. Install python-obelisk
2. git clone https://github.com/darkwallet/python-obelisk
3. python setup.py install

OpenBazaar now uses MongoDB as the backend for storing persistent data. At the moment only orders are being tracked there, but this will be fleshed out ongoing. You will need to set up a MongoDB instance on your machine outside of this software and create a database called 'openbazaar'. There is no authentication or encryption configured, but I will be adding in support for this soon.

• Install MongoDB with OpenSSL
• Start MongoDB
• Create database named openbazaar

From command line: mongo use openbazaar

For OSX there is a CLANG error when installing pyzmq but you can use the following command to ignore warnings:

sudo ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future easy_install pyzmq

If you're getting errors saying ZMQError: Can't assign requested address then you probably need to bring up some loopback adapters for those IPs higher than 127.0.0.1.

sudo ifconfig lo:1 127.0.0.2 sudo ifconfig lo:2 127.0.0.3 sudo ifconfig lo:3 127.0.0.4

To get the identity server running for querying nicknames in the UI you need to start the identity server. From the base directory of the software run the following:

python ident/identity.py

contributed by Jacob Payne contributed by Dean Masley

This screen shot looks horrible and is just a placeholder ATM. Designers wanted. Apply to brian@openbazaar.org if you're interested in helping out.