The Fed-Proof Online Market OpenBazaar Is Going Anonymous
When OpenBazaar launched in 2014, it promised to be the world’s first peer-to-peer online bitcoin marketplace that no government or company could control—a kind of Bittorrent of online trade that would let anyone sell anything directly to anyone else. Now, OpenBazaar will finally add the last ingredient to enable that anarchic dream: anonymity.
In May, OpenBazaar’s developers plan to launch OpenBazaar 2, which revamps the peer-to-peer communication protocol that allows users to make purchases and list items for sale online without hosting any data on a central server. The new version will also integrate the anonymity software Tor, designed to allow anyone to browse the market’s network anonymously or list items for sale from an untraceable location.
