Dworf
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Like all applications, DASH need a big community to rise its value. Market places are naturally the best way to use a currency. But Eb*y and Ama*on even do not accept Bitcoin for payments - not to talk about DASH. There were some discussions about a Openbazaar fork for DASH support. But since OB itself is not a killer app for now it seems unlikely that it will be in the near future. Another suggestion was to implement a darkmarket. But I think that is the wrong way for a serious currency since it would just give the whole project a shady touch.
To solve this problem (and some more with Eb*y et al) I suggest a project to implement a completely decentralized market on Zeronet with DASH and Bitcoin as primary payment solutions. The idea originated before: http://themerkle.com/zerobazaar-combines-zeronet-with-openbazaar/
But it looks like the development has been stopped (or never started).
Basically there is Bitsquare which proves that decentralized markets with cryptocurrencies can work quite well. But it does not use Zeronet (which it does not need to use since all data is in local setups or the blockchain). It has the same shortcoming like Openbazaar - if the application is not running the offers are not visible. But Zeronet could solve this problem since it shares all data over its peers and make it independent of a single peer running or not.
So my suggestion for a very basic architectural overview would be:
1) create a single site ID (Zite in Zeronet) for the market place overview and search (that may be subject of change in later stages)
2) for any offerer of selling goods a new zite must be automatically created which binds his identity (derived from his ZeroID) and offers.
3) payments as well as trading status are stored on a blockchain (DASH ?). If a trade is initiated both participants secure the trade with a fund into a simple smartcontract (multisignature address).
The idea is to drive the discussion on this. If anyone is interested he may participate. If the outcome of the discussion is well accepted and sufficient resources to implement the market are available it may go over into a proposal to fund this project.
To solve this problem (and some more with Eb*y et al) I suggest a project to implement a completely decentralized market on Zeronet with DASH and Bitcoin as primary payment solutions. The idea originated before: http://themerkle.com/zerobazaar-combines-zeronet-with-openbazaar/
But it looks like the development has been stopped (or never started).
Basically there is Bitsquare which proves that decentralized markets with cryptocurrencies can work quite well. But it does not use Zeronet (which it does not need to use since all data is in local setups or the blockchain). It has the same shortcoming like Openbazaar - if the application is not running the offers are not visible. But Zeronet could solve this problem since it shares all data over its peers and make it independent of a single peer running or not.
So my suggestion for a very basic architectural overview would be:
1) create a single site ID (Zite in Zeronet) for the market place overview and search (that may be subject of change in later stages)
2) for any offerer of selling goods a new zite must be automatically created which binds his identity (derived from his ZeroID) and offers.
3) payments as well as trading status are stored on a blockchain (DASH ?). If a trade is initiated both participants secure the trade with a fund into a simple smartcontract (multisignature address).
The idea is to drive the discussion on this. If anyone is interested he may participate. If the outcome of the discussion is well accepted and sufficient resources to implement the market are available it may go over into a proposal to fund this project.
