• CryptoCannabis [0]

    2FA? And Other Steps To Become A Relevant Market

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    Hey y'all, certainly we're not the ONLY ones who thinks that Alpaca has a sleek layout and is rich with features for vendors. So, what gives? Why only 50 drug listings? Why has a single purchase not been made on this market (at least not in the biggest category, Cannabis.)
    
    All of us vendors should make a push to increase the relevance of Alpaca. I am sure that after a few buys, when word gets around, people will start to trickle in. The layout and look are much more pleasant. It has multisig escrow. The admin (or at least eleftheria) are very responsive. The Auto-message features are great for vendors to communicate their expectations to buyers. The reputation tracking seems to be on par with any other DNM. The only thing that I can see that Alpaca is missing is 2FA login. (Eleftheria, get working on this! It makes vendors feel way more comfortable about the security of their login info and it makes account-cracking nigh-impossible).
    
    Can anybody think of things that we could all do to increase the notoriety of this market? Is anybody else even interested in taking up the effort?
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  • Eleftheria [99]
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    Posted on 16 June 2014 by CryptoCannabis [1] :

    Why has a single purchase not been made on this market

    No transactions have taken place mainly because the multisig escrow is offline. This feature is still in development.

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    Posted on 16 June 2014 by CryptoCannabis [1] :

    The only thing that I can see that Alpaca is missing is 2FA login.

    As for login, a private username and password should suffice, as long as you don't reuse your codes on other sites and you don't use your profile alias name for your username, then everything should be pretty secure. But we will still take your idea into consideration.

    The Alpaca marketplace also offers further authentication and encryption options, which can be found in your profile settings page.

    The hash login feature may come back again some time later in the future for the more paranoid and experienced users.

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    Posted on 16 June 2014 by CryptoCannabis [1] :

    Can anybody think of things that we could all do to increase the notoriety of this market?

    It would be interesting to figure out a way to boost the alpaca popularity. It would be slightly unethical to bombard advertisement on other marketplace forums, but ideally, these users would be the most effective ones to bring in.

    There is also huge potential in non-existing tor users in the outside world, but this can become risky business without the use of third-party media. So we will have to rely mainly on our alpaca users to refer your friends and tor buddies.

    Besides, if alpaca is worthy of being on the top.. then with time, it will prove itself.

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