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⚡ Rebuilding Agora: Can P2P Bitcoin Markets Thrive Again?
21 sats \ 1 comment \ @MunirGRANDE 17h AGORA
I’ve been thinking about the revival of Agora-style Bitcoin marketplaces—truly peer-to-peer, censorship-resistant exchanges for goods and services.
With Nostr gaining traction and Lightning improving small payments, it feels like we’re close to the tools needed to make these markets work without relying on centralized platforms.
What projects are you watching in this space? Do you think decentralized Bitcoin marketplaces will finally achieve mainstream adoption? Or are legal risks and liquidity challenges still too big?
Curious to hear your thoughts.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG 17h
When you stay anonymous, and watch out on disclosing and personal information when dealing P2P in the private, there's no legal risk because contract and deals are private. Nor there's any liquidity challenges if one follows the bitcoin standard.
The only issue is obviously trust for new users, but is something we are working on. We believe maybe an optional escrow service could sustain and build trust across trustless users.
Indeed, there are some marketplaces popping up on nostr, however, the protocol still in its infancy and is not really designed for marketplaces. But here we are, the ~AGORA marketplace is just under our nose, here in Stacker.News.
At the moment, we have structured the following options to advertise goods and services in this corner of the Wild West Web!
Read our Tutorials, Guidelines, Tips & Tricks! and let us know if you have any question or suggestion on how we can do it better.
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