To Adam's point, SR and OB are quite different.


Silk road: Run for profit.

OpenBazaar: Open source protocol, not for profit.


Silk Road: Centrally controlled by small group of individuals.

OpenBazaar: Not controlled by anyone, decentralized.


Silk Road: Created in order to sell illegal (though not immoral)
material specifically.

OpenBazaar: An agnostic platform for any goods or services.


Silk Road: A single marketplace.

OpenBazaar: A protocol that allows people to make an infinite number of
their own marketplaces.



The Silk Road certainly was groundbreaking, but ultimately limited in
its impact because it was centralized, run for profit, censorable, and
obviously fatally flawed because of over-reliance on human beings (that
clearly made major mistakes).

BTW, OpenBazaar isn't the only attempt at a decentralized marketplace
and we certainly welcome any other attempts. Decentralization is the
future, but someone has to take the time to build it.


On 02/06/2015 06:51 PM, Adam B. Levine wrote:
> The gun thing? As mentioned, you seem to take on the mission of proving
> that the state can't actually enforce their monopolies of control as being
> the entire job. That is great but again only demonstrates that the illusion
> is an illusion, it does not provide any alternatives or solutions. Things
> like OpenBazaar are actual solutions so that when the current paradigm
> falls apart there are better systems not just hypothetically theoretical
> but actually working in real life before we needed them.
>
> What good is it destroying the existing paradigm if you've got nothing
> better to replace it with? Decentralized tools that enable p2p
> interactions and commerce without a trusted third party seem to solve that.
>
> So aren't projects like what Brian and I are working neccesary alternatives
> for when people come around to your way of seeing things? I just don't get
> the whole point out the problem but shit on attempts at building something
> different and better thing.
>
> Do you really not see the difference between openbazaar and silk road?
> They are structured very differently.
>
> Adam B. Levine
> Editor-in-Chief
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> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Brian Hoffman <brian@???> wrote:
>
>> How many have you guys sold? I feel like I haven't heard about it since it
>> came out. Seems irrelevant.
>>
>> On Feb 6, 2015, at 6:42 PM, Cody R Wilson <codywilson@???> wrote:
>>
>> Can you hear me sighing?
>>
>> Take DD's little Ghost Gunner. At once a reversion, a baiting of the state
>> regulatory imagination into overdrive, and the literalization of its own
>> nightmare. We understand the spirit of terror.
>>
>> So, no. I'm casting all these pearls because so many of YOU have become
>> them, and you don't have to mettle to stand in judgment of Ulbricht.
>> On Feb 6, 2015 5:33 PM, "Washington Sanchez" <washington.sanchez@???>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "Meet terror with terror..."
>>>
>>> What a skilful use of the leviathan's ideological hegemony to justify a
>>> corrupt conscience. You are not merely emulating their tactics, you have
>>> become them. How disappointing.
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