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 <[email protected]> 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 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
