Software:OpenBazaar
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| Original author(s) | Amir Taaki (DarkMarket), Brian Hoffman |
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| Developer(s) | OpenBazaar Team |
| Initial release | 4 April 2016 |
| Final release | 2.4.10 (Desktop Client)
/ 30 December 2020[1] |
| Written in | Go, JavaScript |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux |
| Size | 130 MB |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Online marketplace |
| License | MIT License |
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.
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]
In 2015, Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures invested in OB1, the company behind OpenBazaar, backing the development of the decentralized marketplace.[8]
See also
References
- ↑ "Releases · OpenBazaar/openbazaar-desktop". https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-desktop/releases.
- ↑ Prusty, Narayan (2017-04-27) (in en). Building Blockchain Projects. Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781787125339. https://books.google.com/books?id=80EwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Greenberg, Andy (2014-04-24). "Inside the 'DarkMarket' Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize". Wired. https://www.wired.com/2014/04/darkmarket. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
- ↑ Hern, Alex (2014-04-30). "Silk Road successor DarkMarket rebrands as OpenBazaar" (in en-GB). The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/30/silk-road-darkmarket-openbazaar-online-drugs-marketplace.
- ↑ Greenberg, Andy (2017-03-06). "The Fed-Proof Online Market OpenBazaar Is Going Anonymous". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. https://www.wired.com/2017/03/fed-proof-online-market-openbazaar-going-anonymous/. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
- ↑ "OpenBazaar launches version 1.0 with aims to become the 'uncensored' Amazon" (in en). 2016-04-04. https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/openbazaar-official-release-darkmarket/.
- ↑ @openbazaar. "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.". https://twitter.com/openbazaar/status/1346104369566121986. Missing or empty |date= (help)
- ↑ "OpenBazaar is Entering a New Phase with Funding". https://blog.openbazaar.org/openbazaar-is-entering-a-new-phase-with-funding/.
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