121 sats \ 3 replies \ @taxd 25 Jun 2022 \ on: OpenBazaar Co-Founder Explains Why Bitcoin’s Answer to eBay Folded Its Tents bitcoin
The UI was horrible, but easily fixable.
Instead they spent all the efforts of Chris Pacia to include a lot of shitcoins, since "it cannot hurt to have payment alternatives."
Well, it surely can if it takes away all the development resources.
Chris was an extremely strong proponent of Bitcoin Cash and was a large reason we went past Bitcoin and supported it. We also decided to support some additional UTXO based currencies like LTC and Zcash. Eventually we wanted to also support ETH and ERC-20s. We wanted to capture as many potential users as possible. We didn’t discriminate against other coins. Chris wouldn’t have been working on Lightning or anything related because he was not a real supporter of it. It was also just not compatible with us to start building on. We would have had to build something similar to LNURL or Lightning Addresses and really gone all in on Bitcoin only and the team we had would not have gone for that either.
Lots of mistakes all around regardless.
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OK. Too bad. I liked the idea a lot and even bought some nice art on OpenBazaar. Then the problems with this spammer selling comic series which could not be blocked, having to deal with Tor manually and so on came.
Hopefully something similar comes back. I think DeSnake of AlphaBay fame thinks along these lines.
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I never bought anything from openbazaar because there was nothing that I want on there.