Outlaw Market vs. Hansa Market vs. East India Company

What are your experiences with these markets and which of them would you recommend?

Edit: I'm asking about these specifically since they seem to be the best/safest bet recently. If you have any other suggestions, suggest away!


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[3 Points] ElectronicChronic:

Outlaw has been around forever, yet the design sucks so no one wants to use it.

East India Company is honestly amazing, great sorting options easy to navigate through, just needs a bit more vendors. It's surprising how nice this market is.

Never used Hansa so I cannot comment on that.


[2 Points] sigmulti_:

EIC is the only one with trustless 2-of-3 multisig. They have timelock transactions if the site goes down. They support partial refunds, like for example if product never lands they can release the money 50% to the customer 50% to the vendor minus the market fee. They seem to be the only ones who understand how Bitcoin works.

Hansa multisig is not trustless. They hold the money for 24 hours which means it can be stolen by them or hackers, and is only 2-of-2 so it can make refunds impossible. If the site goes down all the vendors lose their money because they won't have hansas key to release it. Do they even provide redeem scripts to verify?

Outlaw multisig is really awkward they give their key to the vendor and charge them outside of the multisig because they don't know how to create a transaction and sign it beore giving it to the vendor to sign.


[0 Points] Trappy_Pandora:

Outlaw admin has been around for years fighting success as if it was about to strangle him to death. They have a strange system though with a $50 per month vendor fee. I don't know if they have commission.

Never heard of Hansa, sounds like something a hooker does for $100 though.

East India Company was hacked once but recovered. I don't think coins were stolen. They are more communicative than most markets have been, and they have a good sense of humor about them. Worthy competitors.