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OpenBazaar was an open source project developing a protocol for e-commerce transactions in a fully decentralized marketplace. It used cryptocurrencies as medium of exchange and was inspired by a hackathon project called DarkMarket.

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This repo contains the OpenBazaar networking daemon that can be used to access the p2p network. It establishes connections and maintains a Kademlia style DHT. Rest and websocket APIs are available for clients to communicate with the daemon. Pre-built installers which bundle the client and server components can be found here. Depending on your system configuration you may need to install some additional dependencies. You can find more detailed, OS specific, instructions here. SSL Support Generate certificate as described here Place the server.crt and server.key into Enable SSL in

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Official website
openbazaar.org
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source code repository URL
github.com/OpenBazaar
inception
2014-04-04
software version identifier
2.4.10
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361849
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OpenBazaar was an open source project developing a protocol for e-commerce transactions in a fully decentralized marketplace. It used cryptocurrencies as medium of exchange and was inspired by a hackathon project called DarkMarket.

== History == Amir Taaki and a group of programmers from Bitcoin startup Airbitz created a decentralized marketplace prototype, called "DarkMarket", in April 2014 at a Bitcoin Hackathon in Toronto. DarkMarket was developed as a proof of concept in response to the seizure of the darknet market Silk Road in October 2013. Taaki compared DarkMarket's improvements on Silk Road to BitTorrent's improvements on Napster.

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