[CommunityDiscussion] Decentralized Marketplaces

So I'm sure many of you are following or at least have heard of the development of decentralized marketplaces such as:

-Shadow

-OpenBazaar

-BitBay

I'm sure there are many others, these are just the one's I've been looking into. These have been in development for a number of months now and if they continue at the pace they are going now we should see some working markets fairly soon. If these marketplaces launch with all the features the developers are promising will we be seeing everyone flock to them, leaving our 'beloved' centralized markets behind for good?


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[5 Points] thebedguy:

Oh this thread again.


[3 Points] GrandWizardsLair:

BitBay proudly proclaims their marketplaces are "moderated" and that illegal content will be removed. Which means they are useless for our purposes.

The other two seem promising. ShadowMarket requires a new currency: that's a pretty big hurdle and may be a deal-breaker. OpenBazaar is, ITGWO, the most promising of the three. If they get it working on Tor and get a release out to the public soon we'll be all over it. Until that time all these projects sound good and have many interesting features: it's anybody's guess as to which, if any, will actually make it into full deployment and widespread use.


[2 Points] MXEMan:

My guess is no because people are basically sheep. The vast majority of humanity is inclined to do things the 'way they've always been done' with a few percentage points being early adopters. Eventually the WTABD shifts to this new technology. It's probably hardwired in as a survival instinct because some of the innovations will be failures and if the entire populace jumps in it could be catastrophic.


[1 Points] None:

We don't need these posts multiple times a day. This shit gets annoying. Espically considering many people won't use them because they're to damn lazy to figure out how to use multisig. But whatever, they can continue to get fucked over.