Hello Stackers!
Since over a year now, we have been working on building up the AGORA – a Bitcoin-only, peer-to-peer marketplace that live in the realms of Stacker.news. We inherit the idea from @mo and since then, with @AG we have been taking care of growing it, ensuring and structuring the various functionalities to be available for those merchants and private sellers and buyers that aim to trade freely, without intermediaries, fees, and friction.
📣You can experience it here:
https://stacker.news/~AGORA
📙 All the Tutorials, Guidelines, Tips & Tricks here:
https://stacker.news/items/942038
What's possible now:
The main idea was to use existing posting functionalities to advertise and share listings and classifieds posts, ideally introducing the idea of Ad-posts type in the stacker.news platform. I cannot negate, that the other online marketplace have been inspiring us, providing with solid references to grow the idea with.
Specifically for the AGORA, here are the current list of available posts we have structured, the user simply need to add a
[TAG] in the that allows the community to identify the type of ad shared:-
[⚖️ SELL] your stuff.
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[🛒 BUY] stuff for sats.
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[🧑💻 HIRE]some stuff or skills.
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[🖇 OFFER] something.
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[🧑⚖️ AUCTION]s at your own discretion. Dutch?
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[🤝 SWAP] Peer to Peer.
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You could also give it for [🆓 FREE], ideal for giveaway or gifts.
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Start your own [SHOPFRONT] or simply...
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[⭐ REVIEW] anything
What we are working on:
We realize this is still an early stage idea, we miss a lot of functionalities SN is not able to offer, and we never know it will. The whole idea could have the potential to fail, depending on how we structure and maintain it. But again, other marketplace have demonstrated that this idea could live in other forum too, so we will continue working to increase our trust within the community, and ensure stackers can trade safely and anonymously with Bitcoin, P2P, as it supposed to be!
Future improvements:
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Ensure and educate users to communicate anonymously, ideally using nostr protocol messages clients or other encrypted messaging systems (Until SN will provide an internal DM system I read somewhere is in the making(?)).
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Provide an optional on-request escrow service that can help build trust and safeguard buyers and sellers when required. we have few toys to play with, what would be your preferred?
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- Lately @supertestnet gifted another of its supersimple creations... the Celebrity Escrow!
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- We learn here about @Tristan(@TristanBietsch)'s @BitEscrow, or previously LightningEscrow why isn't available anymore?
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- Crow is another one I mentioned earlier #971914...
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- And some historic pieces of software that sill running like Coinbin
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Last, but not least important, Promotion and creating a presence for the AGORA in other social media and platforms, helping people anywhere to discover and learn more about bitcoin, privacy and how to trade P2P. We recently fail multiple times on r/ unbelievably censored platforms! However, we are live in the LightningNetwork+, and WIP n KYCnot.me and more to come soon.
What else are we missing? Will be great to hear your opinion. And if there's any marketplace moderator reading this, your feedback and insights would be much appreciated and valuable.
👉 Try AGORA now & share feedback below:
https://stacker.news/~AGORA
https://stacker.news/~AGORA
Let’s Build the Future of Bitcoin Commerce
AGORA isn’t just a marketplace – it’s a community focusing in business, commerce best practices following bitcoin values and ethos. An economy experiment. Your input will shape its evolution. Rip it apart, stress-test it, and tell us how to make it bulletproof!
AGORA isn’t just a marketplace – it’s a community focusing in business, commerce best practices following bitcoin values and ethos. An economy experiment. Your input will shape its evolution. Rip it apart, stress-test it, and tell us how to make it bulletproof!
Questions? Critiques? Wild ideas?
→ Reply below! We’re all ears.
→ Reply below! We’re all ears.
Stay humble, stack sats!
The AGORA Builders
The AGORA Builders