10 sats \ 5 replies \ @nobody OP 26 Jun 2022 \ on: Plebian Market Value 4 Value auctions by plebs for plebs bitcoin
https://plebeian.market/faq
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How do I place a bid?
A: Scan a QR code using your lightning wallet to place a bid. Bidding on an auction costs 21 sats. These sats will go directly to funding open-source initiatives such as OpenSats.
Q: Do you take a percentage?
A: We are built on the Value4Value model. When a seller creates a profile they have the option to donate up to 5% of the sale price to support Plebeian Market. When a buyer wins an auction, they are asked to send this donation to Plebeian Market before they are connected to the seller to complete the transaction. For example, if you win an auction and the winning bid is 1000 sats and the buyer has opted to donate 2.5%, you will be prompted to send us the 25 sats donation before being connected with the seller to pay the remaining 975 sats.
Q: Why do you ask for a Twitter account?
A: Eventually, we aim to use a DID (Decentralized ID) reputation system built on lightning, but for now Twitter is a good anchor and provides "proof of human." We don't pull any information from your Twitter account except for your profile picture and the images for your auction. Bitcoin Twitter has a huge network effect and will help you sell your listing!
Q: Is Plebeian Market open source?
A: We are 100% FOSS. By using Plebeian Market not only are you supporting its continued development but you're also supporting other FOSS (free open source software) projects in the Bitcoin community.
Q: Where can I share my question or feedback?
A: You can find us on Telegram or email us at support@plebeian.market. If you have a more technical feedback or would like to contribute to the development, you can find us on GitHub.
Q: What about shipping?
A: When you create a listing you can specify where you are shipping from. As a buyer, if you need additional information about the shipping cost for a specific listing, please reach out to the author of that listing directly.
Q: Do you hold the funds in escrow?
A: We do not touch the money at any point in the transaction, we simply run the auction to help you find the market value. The winner is put in contact with the seller and the two complete the payment directly. In the future we may develop an escrow system that does not require a trusted third party, such as a multisig Bitcoin escrow with a security deposit to protect buyer and seller, but we do not intend to ever be the trusted third party or hold the funds at any point during the transaction.
Q: Plebeian?
A: Everything about this project is designed by plebs for plebs.
Q: I scanned the login QR code with my favorite lightning wallet and it gave me an error message! What can I do?
A: Let them know that their app doesn't work for LNURL-auth! Hopefully they will add support for this amazing feature. In the meantime you can use one of the wallets we have tested, such as Breez, Phoenix or Zeus on your mobile device, or Alby or Thunderhub on your computer. You can also use any LNURL-auth compatible wallet (see number 04).
Q: What kind of software license is this project using?
A: This project has been initially released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Once we have completed the MVPs for the other components of the ecosystem we will transition to a more permissive license, most likely MIT.
Q: Why do you ask for a Twitter account?
You've got to be kidding me.
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Why?
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Because while Twitter welcomes bitcoiners today there's no guarantee that it will do so tomorrow.
Observe this:
- Twitter will ban you for covid "mis"information even if you sit in Congress
- while Twitter won't ban you yet for denying climate change, it's in the stage of banning ads guilty of this sin
- about a month ago Twitter adopted a more agressive policy against disinformation
- WEF supports the stupid "Change the Code" campaign to convert Bitcoin to PoS to save climate
Do you see what could happen the moment bitcoin annoys the government again?
We have unstoppable decentralized money. We should use it to build unstoppable decentralized market instead of giving the government a convenient kill switch.
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We are currently an MVP, not even alpha quality. Some form of decentralized IDs is high on our TODO list, but we had to start somewhere...
We considered Twitter is a good start, since we need some way for people to recognize others (an informal reputation sort of thing). We'll leave that behind eventually, Twitter will become one of the various identities you can link to your account, KeyBase-style, and it will all be optional.
The whole thing is actually built to be decentralized and unstoppable. While we run the instance at plebeian.market for you, you can run your own instance, with your own modifications to the code (which is GPL), hosting any auctions you care about (whether antiques or used cars), in which case you can have your own rules.
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Oh, okay. For an MVP that's good enough.
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