Nothing is free, so here are my brief ideas for funding this:
- Ads
- "premium features" for sellers
- "promoted" sellers
- Fees for those that want to be "Secure Escrow and Dispute Resolution" accounts
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#12In the crypto-darknet community, the word is that this is where the drug trade is going to move to after the recent busts of the past weeks.
How pleasant
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#13What's the point if it doesn't support Tor or some other anonymizing service?
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#14Seems to be some confusion...
To clarify OpenBazaar's "No Transaction Fees", it means there are no marketplace platform fees.
To compare with ebay, to sell an item for $500 and charge $20 for shipping ($520):
- eBay fee: ~10% of final bid value + 10% of any shipping charge added on = $52
- PayPal fee: 2.9% of payment = $15.08
The bitcoin network would eliminate the PayPal fees. (The bitcoin fees would still exist but presumably would be lower than 2.9%)
The OpenBazaar platform would eliminate the eBay platform fees.
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#16Some previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=openbazaar%20points%3E15&sort=...
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#17Don't wanna be the partypooper but Blockmarket wins the dex marketplace niche ;-)
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#18What's the point if it doesn't support Tor or some other anonymizing service?
It seems it does, as of this year: https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go/pull/342
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#19This is huge!