The BlockStamp Project is building an app ecosystem based on its own blockchain. The goal: Making "specific areas of the digital economy work more fairly and transparently." The latest "BlockStamp OpenBazaar Listing Explorer" app helps "make free online commerce truly free. It eliminates middlemen and censorship. What is OpenBazaar? OpenBazaar is a peer-to-peer e-commerce platform. It has been around for a few years now and is still thriving. According to Blockstamp, it is truly decentralized. In order to buy and sell products, users need to run the software on their own computers and interact directly with each other, rather than through an intermediary who generates its profit by doing so. In mainstream e-commerce, intermediaries are companies such as eBay or Amazon (or Allegro in Poland). In non-mainstream e-commerce, i.e. darknet markets, the intermediaries are those who manage the platform. In any case - OpenBazaar works. There are active users on it, i.e. you can run the software and actually buy and sell using it. It is possible to sell anything there. The whole infrastructure provides a truly free market. You can find mundane things like t-shirts and toys, and many products that are just weird. And of course consciousness-altering substances.... However, Blockstamp believes that the full potential of the platform is untapped because: the default list explorer is censored and so far there have been no good alternatives, to buy something on OpenBazaar, you need to know the auction address. You can get the above link in many ways, such as from a friend or on a bulletin board, etc. The most likely way to find such a link to something you want to buy is through the OpenBazaar listings search engine. Blockstamp is getting into the game! The OpenBazaar development team has created such a search engine, which is included in the platform by default. However, it is censored. On the one hand - rightly so. The project has built a great product and has its own reasons for deciding to censor the list explorer. Only that from a practical standpoint, this censorship slows down adoption. Most users will buy t-shirts, toys, etc. from major online retailers. They'll come to OpenBazaar because it allows them to trade unlimited items that are harder to get elsewhere. Fortunately, you can now use OpenBazaar's uncensored list explorer at this link. How it works. If a seller has listed an item on the OpenBazaar platform, you can easily find it using the BlockStamp list explorer. Just type in what you're looking for and... done! It looks like this in the example: Once you've found what you want to buy, you can also complete the purchase in the standard app. It's easy! Enjoy your shopping! Tags blockstamp blockstamp blockchain Open Bazaar Open Bazaar BlockStamp
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