OpenBazaar

OpenBazaar is an open source project developing a protocol for e-commerce transactions in a fully decentralized marketplace.[1] It uses cryptocurrencies as medium of exchange and was inspired by a hackathon project called DarkMarket.

OpenBazaar
OpenBazaar logo
Original author(s)Amir Taaki (DarkMarket), Brian Hoffman
Developer(s)OpenBazaar Team
Initial release4 April 2016 (2016-04-04)
Stable release
2.4.7 (Desktop Client) / 2020-07-16
Repository
Written inGo, JavaScript
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, OS X, GNU/Linux
Size130 MB
Available inEnglish
TypeOnline marketplace
LicenseMIT License
Websiteopenbazaar.org

History

Amir Taaki and a group of programmers from Bitcoin startup Airbitz created a decentralized marketplace prototype, called "DarkMarket", in April 2014 at a Bitcoin Hackathon in Toronto.[2] DarkMarket was developed as a proof of concept in response to the seizure of the darknet market Silk Road in October 2013.[3] Taaki compared DarkMarket's improvements on Silk Road to BitTorrent's improvements on Napster.[2]

After the hackathon, the original creators abandoned the prototype and it was later adopted and rebranded to OpenBazaar by a new team of developers.[4] On April 4, 2016, OpenBazaar released their first version, which allowed users to buy and sell goods for Bitcoin.[5]

gollark: It's on an ancient 7200RPM SAS disk.
gollark: My server's only got 4GB of RAM and... maybe 4 of swap, IIRC?
gollark: Are you a fellow `fish` user?
gollark: ```osmarks@fenrir ~> uptime 20:07:57 up 5 days, 23:23, 0 users, load average: 2.48, 2.27, 2.20```
gollark: Mostly I just do suspend-to-RAM and occasionally do an actual reboot for kernel updates.

See also

References
  1. Prusty, Narayan (2017-04-27). Building Blockchain Projects. Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781787125339.
  2. Greenberg, Andy (2014-04-24). "Inside the 'DarkMarket' Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize". Wired. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  3. Hern, Alex (2014-04-30). "Silk Road successor DarkMarket rebrands as OpenBazaar". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  4. Greenberg, Andy (2017-03-06). "The Fed-Proof Online Market OpenBazaar Is Going Anonymous". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  5. "OpenBazaar launches version 1.0 with aims to become the 'uncensored' Amazon". The Daily Dot. 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
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