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Open Bazaar – decentralized Bitcoin marketplace

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Re: Open Bazaar – decentralized Bitcoin marketplace

#101
post #94

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In what sense? This is not a file sharing platform. Also, money is exchanged here.

In the sense that it's not clear how openbazaar developers will earn money.

They can add the fees later, when (if) it gets popular. If the fees are low enough, forking it would be too much hassle.

Re: Open Bazaar – decentralized Bitcoin marketplace

#102
post #7

I can't find details on dispute resolution. Are they using multisig escrow transactions like Silk Road?

I'm fairly sure Silk Road never offered multisig transactions.

Here's a (fairly old) blog post describing how escrow works in OpenBazaar:

https://blog.openbazaar.org/how-moderators-and-dispute-resol...

Re: Open Bazaar – decentralized Bitcoin marketplace

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Law enforcement needs the same set of tools to solve both of these problems. You are proposing that these tools should go away, right?

"Both" of these problems? The problem is dealing in human beings, right? What's the other problem? Am I proposing that the tools to solve human trafficking go away? I wouldn't put it that way. Lots of societal progress comes with trade-offs. There will certainly be challenges for law enforcement but I'm confident they'll solve them. The world isn't going to descend into a chaotic state of everyone buying and selling…

The OP said "Can we find a way to help law enforcement police at the very least the really, really bad stuff," I think you're eliding his entire concern when you just say "I'm confident they'll solve them"

Re: Open Bazaar – decentralized Bitcoin marketplace

#108

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Law enforcement needs the same set of tools to solve both of these problems. You are proposing that these tools should go away, right?

"Both" of these problems? The problem is dealing in human beings, right? What's the other problem? Am I proposing that the tools to solve human trafficking go away? I wouldn't put it that way. Lots of societal progress comes with trade-offs. There will certainly be challenges for law enforcement but I'm confident they'll solve them. The world isn't going to descend into a chaotic state of everyone buying and selling…

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Re: Open Bazaar – decentralized Bitcoin marketplace

#109

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IIRC OpenBazaar still has paid escrow- it's just cheaper than eBay's fees.

Only in the case of a disputed between the buyer and seller where arbitrage is needed.

Good point! By the way the term is arbitration- arbitrage is a different thing

Re: Open Bazaar – decentralized Bitcoin marketplace

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> Can we find a way to help law enforcement police at the very least the really, really bad stuff? Law enforcement was designed to protect people (or their property) from the actions of other people , not themselves . Law enforcement is fundamentally incapable of protecting people from themselves. That is why the "war on drugs" has been so ineffective. The most effective method to stop the drug (opioid, etc.) epidemi…

I think that the really really bad stuff here is e.g. Human trafficking, chemical weapons, assassination services, etc...not even any drugs, and as you've pointed out, people harming other people. How do you police that here, or don't you?

Funny how the largest producer and consumer of those three things are governments.
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