[liberationtech] A decentralized anonymous marketplace

[Dionysis Zindros]

Dear liberationtech,

I wanted to follow-up on this thread to announce that I've joined the
OpenBazaar [1] team, where we are building this anonymous
decentralized marketplace. OpenBazaar emerged after my initial
announcement and after I had started some initial work on my own
project, and I've had the pleasure to have been contacted by the team
to cooperate on this endeavor.

The vision of such a project is very ambitious, and it makes sense to
combine forces in order to build a complete, secure open source
solution and deliver it in a timely manner. After discussing
extensively with the team, we feel our goals are completely aligned
and are similar to the ones I outlined in my original e-mail to the
list. The rest of the OpenBazaar team is quite strong, which makes me
confident that we'll be able to build a usable product soon.

We're aiming for a beta release by the end of August, and for a 1.0
release by the end of this year. As you can imagine, for such an
ambitious project which is in its infancy, there's great need for
contributors. I would like to take this chance to call for
contributors. If you're a Python hacker, our GitHub repository [2] is
a good place to start. If you would like to contribute but are not a
programmer, you can donate to our bitcoin address which is available
on the website, or join #openbazaar on Freenode and help us with
testing, promotion material (e.g. videos and the website), technical
writing and blogging, and in several other areas.

We're looking forward to making OpenBazaar available to everyone. We
believe it is time for a truly decentralized and anonymous marketplace
to emerge, which will be easy to use for non-tech-savvy users, offers
advanced pseudonymity features, and enables true freedom of trade.

Thank you for your time,
Dionysis.

[1] https://openbazaar.org/
[2] https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:02 AM, elijah <elijah at riseup.net> wrote:
> On 03/24/2014 02:43 PM, Dionysis Zindros wrote:
>
>> We are interested in developing software for a decentralized anonymous
>> marketplace.
>
> Do you have a mailing list of website one can check to keep up to date
> with the planning / development?
>
> -elijah