Zero Fees. Zero Censorship.

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.

• Official Site: http://openbazaar.org
• Forums: http://forum.openbazaar.org
• IRC Chat: #OpenBazaar on Freenode
• Original Presentation at Toronto Hackathon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHVqH8XO1Pk#t=86
• Slides from 'Bitcoin in the Beltway' by Brian Hoffman: http://www.slideshare.net/openbazaar/open-bazaar

Online Test Drive: http://seed.openbazaar.org:8888

You can financially support the project by either:

1. A direct donation: 16uniUFpbhrAxAWMZ9qEkcT9Wf34ETB4Tt
2. Tip4Commit: https://tip4commit.com/projects/728

• Code committed to the project is rewarded with bitcoin

• Full market editor for management of items catalog
• Order management system
• Ricardian-style contracts
• Multisignature escrow-based transactions
• Arbiter management and marketplace
• Private messaging
• Identity/Reputation system

• All features are currently in alpha stage.
• Current functionality includes:
  1. Starting a connection to the distributed marketplace
  2. Viewing content in a browser
• Transactions are not possible for the moment.

Read the build instructions wiki.

contributed by Jacob Payne
contributed by Dean Masley

1. Ricardian Contracts by Dr Washington Sanchez
2. P2P Lending on OpenBazaar by Dr Washington Sanchez
3. Auctions on OpenBazaar by Dr Washington Sanchez
4. Services on OpenBazaar by Dr Washington Sanchez
5. The Issuance and P2P Transfer of Shares on OpenBazaar by Dr Washington Sanchez and Delain Markos
6. Voting Pools in OpenBazaar by Dr Washington Sanchez
7. Distributed Currency Exchange by Dr Washington Sanchez
8. OpenBazaar Genesis Contract by Dr Washington Sanchez (arbiter), Brian Hoffman (buyer), and Samuel Patterson (seller)
9. A pseudonymous trust system for a decentralized anonymous marketplace by Dionysis Zindros
10. Dispute Resolution in OpenBazaar - Arbitration Market by Dr Washington Sanchez

Here are some screenshots of the alpha UI so far:

• Wired
  • Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize
• The Guardian
  • Silk Road successor DarkMarket rebrands as OpenBazaar
• DeepDotWeb
  • OpenBazaar: A Decentralized Alternative
• CoinTelegraph
  • What’s in a Word? DarkMarket Becomes OpenBazaar
  • OpenBazaar Auctions: A decentralized eBay alternative
• Coindesk
  • How OpenBazaar is Using Bitcoin to Build a Decentralized eBay
• Let's Talk Bitcoin: Beyond Bitcoin
  • Exploring The Open Bazaar - Beyond Bitcoin Episode 10
• IBTimes
  • Silk Road Successor DarkMarket is Untouchable by Feds, Claim Creators
• CryptoCoinsNews
  • OpenBazaar: Blazing The Trail For Bitcoin Commerce Without Barriers
• DailyDot
  • New decentralized Deep Web market said to be 'untouchable' by police
  • OpenBazaar launches DarkMarket successor with a 'more positive image'
• CoinBuzz
  • DarkMarket fork ‘OpenBazaar’ to be launched

Available here

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