OpenBazaar

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OpenBazaar
Original authors Amir Taaki (DarkMarket), Brian Hoffman
Developer OpenBazaar Team
Initial release4 April 2016;9 years ago (2016-04-04)
Final release
2.4.10 (Desktop Client) / 30 December 2020;5 years ago (2020-12-30) [1]
Repository
Written in Go, JavaScript
Operating system Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
Size 130  MB
Available inEnglish
Type Online marketplace
License MIT License
Website openbazaar.org   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

OpenBazaar was an open source project developing a protocol for e-commerce transactions in a fully decentralized marketplace. [2] It used cryptocurrencies as medium of exchange and was inspired by a hackathon project called DarkMarket.

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History

Amir Taaki and a group of programmers from Bitcoin startup Airbitz created a decentralized marketplace prototype, called "DarkMarket", in April 2014 at a Bitcoin Hackathon in Toronto. [3] DarkMarket was developed as a proof of concept in response to the seizure of the darknet market Silk Road in October 2013. [4] Taaki compared DarkMarket's improvements on Silk Road to BitTorrent's improvements on Napster. [3]

After the hackathon, the original creators abandoned the prototype and it was later adopted and rebranded to OpenBazaar by a new team of developers. [5] On 4 April 2016, OpenBazaar released their first version, which allowed users to buy and sell goods for Bitcoin. [6] The company announced the closure of their servers on 15 January 2021. [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Releases · OpenBazaar/openbazaar-desktop". github.com. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  2. ↑ Prusty, Narayan (27 April 2017). Building Blockchain Projects. Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN   9781787125339.
  3. 1 2 Greenberg, Andy (24 April 2014). "Inside the 'DarkMarket' Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize". Wired . Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  4. ↑ Hern, Alex (30 April 2014). "Silk Road successor DarkMarket rebrands as OpenBazaar". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  5. ↑ Greenberg, Andy (6 March 2017). "The Fed-Proof Online Market OpenBazaar Is Going Anonymous". Wired. ISSN   1059-1028 . Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  6. ↑ "OpenBazaar launches version 1.0 with aims to become the 'uncensored' Amazon". The Daily Dot. 4 April 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  7. ↑ @openbazaar (4 January 2021). "It is with heavy hearts that we announce that @OB1Company will be decommissioning most of the infrastructure powering important parts of OpenBazaar on January 15th" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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