A hypothetical scenario...Say you had the investment money, an overkill dedicated infrastructure hosted outside the US with full redundancy spread between two countries with tons of appliances (IPS/IDS/LBs and others), the security background @ the enterprise level, and decent background on linux...However you have no coding skills.
If you were considering starting a decentralized market, what would you do to safely mitigate the programming gap? Would you outsource some legit programmer without letting him know your true intentions? (like setup a fake "front" just to get him to build your code).
Your Background: * CISSP and CCIE security certified with 15 years experience in security and network security.
Non-American with two dedicated infrastructures hosted in two separate countries (none of which is the US). Over 20 physical servers put together for this project, plus a few appliances for capacity, load balancing, performance, and DDOS protection.
You've got a reasonable amount of start-up cash (silent investor with deep pockets)
You've ran a small online store for couple years (now defunct) which was put together using OSCommerce and lots of add-ons, but that's as far as your experience with programming and PHP go... Very basic.
You've played with Bitwasp, and even prestashop with a few market add-ons, but because you're a newbie when it comes to programming, you've decided against putting all this investment into something half-ass.
The code is your obvious obstacle here...What would you do? Hypothetically of course.
You will find easily developers that want to make money on a thing like that, the problem is who you can trust in this, who is not LE for example or will put a "BackDoor" in the sytem to be used later...
There a lot of security issues and the trust is a key thing.
I would advice you to discuss a little bit with /u/darknetsolutions , he is a well known member of the community and skilled in these matters.
He run a business of creation of Vendor Shops mainly, but he participated a lot in this community also and have always the will to help.
I'm not saying you should hire him of course, but if you have questions on development in this field he is a good person to talk with.