there isn’t a marketplace at the moment dedicated to use of peercoin except the forum now, or is there?
Should there be one developed? It will just be for buying/selling stuff from peers to peers with peercoins
simple ebay clone would suffice? any other ideas, or maybe even developers?
No really we should do it.
Put PPC to some use, start some economy around it.
[quote=“sandakersmann, post:3, topic:2640”]Make a fork maybe?
https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar[/quote]
When I last talked to them a few weekends ago the guys from the OpenBazaar project didn’t sound like they were adverse to discussing a Peercoin integration (or working with a team to build said integration). It could be a good place to start.
[quote=“sandakersmann, post:3, topic:2640”]Make a fork maybe?
https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar[/quote]
Awesome I did not know about this.
Quick scan trough source code, only thing where the rely on Bitcoin in code is this thing called “obelisk”. I don’t know what it is but it seems to be using Electrum wallet internally.
It would be so awesome if we could adopt this project.
Edit:
Found out what is obelisk; https://github.com/libbitcoin/obelisk/
“libbitcoin-based blockchain query server”
Which is also used Darkwallet: https://github.com/darkwallet/python-obelisk
AFAIK Peercoin lacks python bindings and needed libraries.
Maybe we should bounty porting Bitcoin’s python libraries to Peercoin, regardless of this idea. As those libs are essential to development of all kinds projects.
Maybe we should bounty porting Bitcoin's python libraries to Peercoin, regardless of this idea. As those libs are essential to development of all kinds projects.
Agreed. I’d throw a few hundred PPC behind that bounty.
[quote=“Ben, post:6, topic:2640”]
Maybe we should bounty porting Bitcoin’s python libraries to Peercoin, regardless of this idea. As those libs are essential to development of all kinds projects.
Agreed. I’d throw a few hundred PPC behind that bounty.[/quote]
Sounds like a good idea. Do we need to setup a peer4commit project for that?
Or two for python libraries? and OpenBazaar? Combination might ‘sell’ a bit better.
Personally, if I had to make a choice between bounties to support, I’d recommend we start with a bounty to port btcd so we can move a step forward towards the infrastructure we’d need to allow Open Transactions to work with Peercoin.
Happy to go with your recommendation 
So should I try to fiddle to set something up and find the right repo or do we leave it to the professionals?
btcd is Go-lang implementation of node for bitcoin. Not related to this.
However if that is needed for OT let’s do it! Fork the repo, put it on pee4commit and find someone to manage the project.
About Python libs, I’ll fiddle with some of those related to Peerbox so I can draw first blood and get it going. However expect that in some 30-40 days at least.
If we can get them done, I’m more than happy to contribute to both bounties.
Happy to go with your recommendation
So should I try to fiddle to set something up and find the right repo or do we leave it to the professionals? ;-)[/quote]
I’ll reach out to you and Peerchemist today about setting these up projects. Once we get them started I’ll also contribute 300 PPC each, and hope that others in the community will follow suit with their own matching contributions.
Don’t want to push too hard, but I think it is good to get this started. I see it as a foundation for future developments.
Anything I can help with?
Another solution based on btc.
Happy to go with your recommendation
So should I try to fiddle to set something up and find the right repo or do we leave it to the professionals? ;-)[/quote]
I’ll reach out to you and Peerchemist today about setting these up projects. Once we get them started I’ll also contribute 300 PPC each, and hope that others in the community will follow suit with their own matching contributions.[/quote]
Do we have a peer4commit project ready for Open Transaction? I will match Ben’s contribution with 300 PPC to the project as well, so together with Ben that’s at least 600 PPC already.
EDIT: As soon as there is a bounty, I’ll make sure to spread it in the Open Transaction’s community.
??? A bit confused here. Just trying to make sense of it. So is the plan to open up a peer4commit project for btcd, which is eventually an enabler for another peer4commit project for OT, which a few of us are keen to donate to. Or can OT be developed without btcd?
And this thread is about a marketplace, is that the one we park for now given openbazaar still needs a lot of work. There is also the risk that eBay and the likes will accept Bitcoins in the next year, which might result in losing interest in openbazaar, even if it is decentralised.
[quote=“Cybnate, post:16, topic:2640”]??? A bit confused here. Just trying to make sense of it. So is the plan to open up a peer4commit project for btcd, which is eventually an enabler for another peer4commit project for OT, which a few of us are keen to donate to. Or can OT be developed without btcd?
And this thread is about a marketplace, is that the one we park for now given openbazaar still needs a lot of work. There is also the risk that eBay and the likes will accept Bitcoins in the next year, which might result in losing interest in openbazaar, even if it is decentralised.[/quote]
yeah somehow thread evolved in different direction. Yes, bounty talk is for go-lang implementation of peercoin daemon or port of btcd to support peercoin.
However, after reading about it I can not see why is this important for OT.
Look here: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/13603/what-are-the-benefits-of-using-btcd-instead-of-bitcoind
Can someone point me somewhere to read more about this, I fail to see why is this important for OT.
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This should be separate thread.
It (btcd) came up because that is what OT uses and that was what Chris Odem said we (Peercoin) we would need to adapt to work if we wanted to move forward with an OT integration.
Sorry for contributing to the messing up the thread. About OT and p2p market: OT can be used in a p2p market and would probably be a very efficient way to do escrows and what not. But I agree, it should be discussed in different threads because its kind of different things these two technologies overlapping in some places and not in other.
EDIT: Created separate bounty thread for Open Transactions integration: http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=3143.new#new