OpenBazaar
OpenBazaar is an open source project developing a protocol for e-commerce transactions in a fully decentralized marketplace.[1] It uses cryptocurrencies as medium of exchange and was inspired by a hackathon project called DarkMarket.
 OpenBazaar logo | |
| Original author(s) | Amir Taaki (DarkMarket), Brian Hoffman |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | OpenBazaar Team |
| Initial release | 4 April 2016 |
| Stable release | 2.3.3
/ 2019-05-02 |
| Repository |  |
| Written in | Go, JavaScript |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, OS X, GNU/Linux |
| Size | 130 MB |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Online marketplace |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | openbazaar |
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.[2] DarkMarket was developed as a proof of concept in response to the seizure of the darknet market Silk Road in October 2013.[3] Taaki compared DarkMarket's improvements on Silk Road to BitTorrent's improvements on Napster.[2]
After the hackathon, the original creators abandoned the prototype and it was later adopted and rebranded to OpenBazaar by a new team of developers.[4] On April 4, 2016, OpenBazaar released their first version, which allowed users to buy and sell goods for Bitcoin.[5]
References
- Prusty, Narayan (2017-04-27). Building Blockchain Projects. Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781787125339.
- Greenberg, Andy (2014-04-24). "Inside the 'DarkMarket' Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize". Wired. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
- Hern, Alex (2014-04-30). "Silk Road successor DarkMarket rebrands as OpenBazaar". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
- Greenberg, Andy (2017-03-06). "The Fed-Proof Online Market OpenBazaar Is Going Anonymous". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
- "OpenBazaar launches version 1.0 with aims to become the 'uncensored' Amazon". The Daily Dot. 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2019-03-08.