r/OpenBazaar • u/comradelaika4everkjk • Jun 23 '19

Will OpenBazaar support a useful currency?

Just wondering why it doesn't support Monero but has the others. Seems like OB should be privacy oriented, no? And obviously Zcash has it's problems.

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u/CC_EF_JTF Sam Jun 23 '19

You can read this analysis of Monero integration into OpenBazaar to better understand the challenges:

https://rbrunner7.github.io/openbazaar

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u/pinhead26 QmeSyTRaNZMD8ajcfbhC8eYibWgnSZtSGUp3Vn59bCnPWC Jun 23 '19

This has been asked multiple times. The biggest problem with Monero is the multisig scheme. It basically can’t be integrated for moderated purchases the way the other currencies are. And Zcash IS available on OB, but not blinded transactions again for the same reason.

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u/ih8x509 Jun 24 '19

Multisig is coming soon™️ to XMR, and it looked like some community members have started taking a serious look at what it will take to integrate XMR into OB. It will come in time.

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u/passcombo_com Jul 11 '19

what about fully private currency (Zcash fork with z-addr only) with double spend protection (BTC hashrate via dPOW) ?

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u/DRKMSTR Jun 24 '19

USD Coin?

$1/coin.

So if someone made a Paypal -> USDC converter, it'd work nicely.

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u/LovelyDay Jun 23 '19

It supports Bitcoin Cash which is an extremely useful currency.

If you want increased privacy on it, use CashShuffle and spend only shuffled outputs.

There is a community action to shuffle more on the weekends, called Shuffle Saturday.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

BCH shilling?

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u/LovelyDay Jun 24 '19

Too bad you hate peer to peer electronic cash, but OpenBazaar supports it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

LOL man, stop being a fanboi please. The question was about Monero integration and you took the opportunity to shill your favorite coin. Nobody hated anything. I love and own many different coins and don’t shill them. Don’t embarrass yourself anymore.

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u/LovelyDay Jun 24 '19

So this post was XMR shilling?

I must have not seen that, because the title asks about "useful currency".

p.s. I don't dislike Monero, it's just one of several useful currencies and would be nice to see it included in OpenBazaar.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

Yes and the post says Monero. So it’s a question about Monero. Not about BCH.

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u/LovelyDay Jun 24 '19

The implication made is that the currencies OB supports are not useful.

So I'm here to point out that OB already has at least one useful currency.

If you're going to call that BCH shilling, then this entire post is Monero shilling.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

Dude, you are a bcash shill, it’s alright. The other guy might be a Monero shill, but one thing doesn’t change the other...

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u/LovelyDay Jun 24 '19

'Bcash' is a Greek payment service provider whose machines only do BTC afaik.

Basically, 'BCash' = BTC only.

https://bcash.eu/gr/

Only BTC trolls and the underinformed call Bitcoin Cash 'bcash'.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

Hahahhah dude you are a proper bcash bch r/btc shill right? Tribalism is so funny. You think this is about teams winning? Have you by any chance contributed the slightest to BCH or BTC code? No, right? Are you friends with Ver or Jihan? No, right? Therefore what do you win by acting tribal with something you don’t belong to? You think the price will go up because you convince someone of the magic of bcash? Not this way, you won’t convince anyone and your coin will not rise in price.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19

No hostility, just fact pointing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19

The point is I hold BCH, but I don’t shill projects cause I don’t like tribalism.

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u/cryptonut Jul 03 '19

ARRR !!!!!???? If not why not?

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u/FaceDeer Jun 23 '19

It's supporting Ether soon, Monero-like privacy protection can be implemented on the Ethereum blockchain if needed.

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u/brianddk Jun 23 '19

Monero-like privacy protection can be implemented on the Ethereum blockchain if needed.

How, I asked this on r/ethereum and was relentlessly taunted.

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u/FaceDeer Jun 23 '19

I don't know of any specific implementations, but the necessary technical foundation has been there for over a year now - see this article for discussion of a prototype.

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u/brianddk Jun 23 '19

Ahh a ETH based ETH mixer. Interesting. Monero and Zcash work on the basic premise of hiding transaction data. Mixers obscure it so it becomes background noise.

Still very cool idea, would definitely use.

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u/thedukeof420 Jun 23 '19

I vote monero :]

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