Would the Darknet Market actually use OpenBazaar? Consider the following issues.

"As the network operates now, you host a node if you want to sell a product, buy a product, or be a notary. If you aren't doing those things, there's no point in hosting a node, it doesn't help the network at all. Since you cannot buy, sell, or notarize without hosting a node, then being able to do those things is incentive enough." -- http://www.reddit.com/r/OpenBazaar/comments/2i1cxi/incentives_to_host_nodes/ckyn7ea

Plus there are some other things such as needing to download and connect to all the other sellers - from what I read this takes a fairly long time and likely even longer over Tor, plus it might result in higher security issues. While vendors and buyers are pretty tech savvy, are they so tech savvy that they would dare host a node (for possibly long periods of times, connecting to many peers) as opposed to just jumping onto TAILS, and using a multisig "centralized" marketplace?


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[5 Points] fun-gee:

I guess we will see but I also have my doubts.
I'd say it won't be picked up because there are easier and quicker alternatives.

Most people don't really understand the difference between a P2P and a centralized market, can't see why is it more secure or why would it need to be more secure since they are never going to get caught anyway (the mindset of a drug dealer or buyer).

For most people "a P2P multisig decentralized market is more secure" sounds like the same as "We at market X keep you safe". Since they don't understand how these things works, they just rely on a promise in both cases and will take the easier, quicker way and go with the flock.
Just as with multisig.


[3 Points] Fiber_Bundle:

there is no reason there couldn't be web portals to the open bazaar network, which would function the same as a normal marketplace (i.e. a website)


[2 Points] None:

The concept of open bazar is the future, idk if open bazar will be the future or not but it has the potential to be. Remember napster, that would be SR1 open bazar is utorrent. P2P has its advantages and disadvantages but overall it's a great idea, once the Feds bust enough other markets open bazaar will be the big fish


[1 Points] krustykainer:

Tor-only OpenBazaar demo site went up to day. Lets you look at the local client it without installing anything. http://g2h4k7gmeszbnouc.onion although needs Javascript and websockets enabled. A few test vendor nodes an a hidden-service seed node.

It will take a while but OpenBazaar could end up gluing together centralized markets with a common market messaging bus that users could choose to participate directly in (by running a node) or indirectly by purchasing/selling through a market site that offloads the order into OpenBazaar messaging bus.