A decentralized anonymous marketplace

#1

Post by cyberviewer » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 7:17 AM UTC

A decentralized anonymous marketplace
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Re: A decentralized anonymous marketplace

#2

Post by m0g » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 8:40 AM UTC

I'm not sure with OP doesn't address SilkRoad use cases on top of the ones he mentions, that are clearly a minority if we consider what is likely to happen.

Re: A decentralized anonymous marketplace

#3

Post by boredinballard » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 8:48 AM UTC

There is a project called BitMarket that runs a market on the bitmessage platform, really neat.

https://github.com/AyrA/BitMarket

https://bitmessage.org/forum/index.php?topic=3549.0

Re: A decentralized anonymous marketplace

#4

Post by boredinballard » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 8:48 AM UTC

There is a project called BitMarket that runs a market on the bitmessage platform, really neat.

https://github.com/AyrA/BitMarket

https://bitmessage.org/forum/index.php?topic=3549.0

Re: A decentralized anonymous marketplace

#5

Post by buzzybee » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 9:19 AM UTC

I want to see fewer markets. Markets create complex work for people.

Re: A decentralized anonymous marketplace

#6

Post by exo762 » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 9:37 AM UTC

buzzybee wrote: post #5

I want to see fewer markets. Markets create complex work for people.

Can you elaborate?

Re: A decentralized anonymous marketplace

#7

Post by sadfnjksdf » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 9:41 AM UTC

Fully decentralized means everyone has their own autonomous device to act as server and client of the transactions and has a usable decentralized (probably mesh) network. P2P over the standard net is NOT fully decentralized.

Re: A decentralized anonymous marketplace

#8

Post by bertil » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 9:45 AM UTC

m0g wrote: post #2

I'm not sure with OP doesn't address SilkRoad use cases on top of the ones he mentions, that are clearly a minority if we consider what is likely to happen.

Well, actually, one that he describes ‘journalists sharing secrets’ can be as big as the drug trade, if you read ‘journalist’ as ‘black hat hacker’ and ‘secrets’ as ‘exploits’. Silk Road couldn’t really do that, because of possible meddling from the central host, but without that risk…

Re: A decentralized anonymous marketplace

#9

Post by infruset » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 9:46 AM UTC

I think they might want to reconsidert using bitmessage for communications, because it has some serious security failures as it stands. At least according to https://bitmessage.org/forum/index.php?topic=1666.0

Re: A decentralized anonymous marketplace

#10

Post by roeme » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 9:55 AM UTC

This is interesting; but as a netizen taken part in international transactions outside of ebay/amazon I'm wondering how one can make the whole transaction safe/trusted in the face of complete anonymity for both seller and buyer.

Escrows are mentioned; but I can't shake the feeling that malicious individuals can game the whole system by creating a lot of sockpuppets and pulling up a smokescreen of trust, ultimately ripping somebody off in a high-value transaction, either as a seller or buyer.

It was/is possible on the platforms mentioned above; I don't imagine it more difficult in a anonymous market.

Looking forward to their results and insights to this.