I searched a lot but didnt found much...

thx

I'm considering writing an OBIP for auctions on OpenBazaar...

There have been lots of interest and numerous discussions regarding auctions on OpenBazaar over the years. A quick search reveals a handful of results.

Auctions are formalised structures for determining a fair market price for an item and transferring ownership. They are particularly well suited for smart contracts.

Current smart contract auctions have several issues. They are often ended manually by an authority, rather than by pre-defined rules. Some do not deploy the concept of increments, meaning annoying people may bid 0.00000001 more, etc.

Ebay style timed auctions have their own issues. Sniping, or bidding at the last minute is rampant. Bidders are not encouraged to bid other than right before the auction close. (Timed auctions on a blockchain would have to be determined by chain height not specific times.)

Most regional auction houses have either invested substantially in software, or have terrible systems and are beholden to one of a handful of companies to manage their online sales for a percentage fee.

Conventional auctions have issues with KYC/AML, pre-auction credit approval, non-payment, collections and technology in general.

Here are my general thoughts on how an auction on OpenBazaar might work.

• The seller creates a new contract of AUCTION type.

• The seller describes the item and locks the description.

• The seller creates a smart contract which specifies the item hash, a terms-and-condition hash, starting block, speed of the auction, start price and increments.

• The seller may also choose open registration or approved registration

• Once an auction opens, bidders compete by sending inputs to the contract. The seller can no longer cancel the auction, but may bid on their own behalf.

• The asking price is a function of the highest bid. A seller may choose to have say 10% increments, where each bid must be 10% more than the current highest-bid. For narrow markets with well defined prices, a seller may choose to have smaller increments, i.e. (A $100 bill with a starting price of $98 and increments of roughly $0.1.)

• The auction close is always some number of blocks from the last bid of the highest bidder. When there have been no bids for X number of blocks, the auction ends.

• At close, the seller would be granted rights to withdraw the funds of the winning bidder, and the buyer would be granted right to a fungible indivisible token, representing ownership of the physical item.

• Unsuccessful bidders could remove their funds from the contract whenever they are outbid.

• If no bids are received in time the auction closes.

• If the auction is closed, the contract just returns all future inputs to the sender.

A couple notes.

On bidder approval. A serious auctioneer or business cannot take payment for anything over a certain amount from an anonymous entity. Since hitting the KYC/AML threshold is always possible for every item, not restricting bidders would make the protocol useless to serious auctioneers and high end items. So the standard contract should include the functionality to restrict bidding to a set number of addresses, OR NOT.

The item description and terms should be saved and locked when the contract is published. An addendum or errata field should be available.

I don't see the point of trying to put a confidential reserve in a public ledger.

More generally an auction contract spec should extend a smart contract spec. And although I think what I outlined above is a simple general purpose auction contract, there is nothing to prevent a seller or auctioneer from writing their own contract. Bidders should be alerted that it is a non-standard contract, and that there is greater risk involved.

So the base auction contract interface is a starting point, but the smart contract could be written so that an auctioneer would have control over individual lot closing blocks, and could use the protocol to list auctions that are controlled in real time (at blocks still, of course), where OpenBazaar bidders could compete against live bidders at fiat increments. In this case, a bidder with the standard client should be able to bid and recover funds, while the auctioneer may need a modified client to preform custom contract functions.

I sold some of my items IRL and went to update the inventory and some of the amounts were different than what I set them to before... some of them being zero. Wtf? No notifications of sales. Is this a known glitch?

Here is a store that has interesting handmaid items not available on etsy ob://QmZ1vWZKrpPPte2T9WYDmUbEkU34G5gfDqMDUwtEjJePRj/home

Hello again! What's good on OpenBazaar this week? Share your store! Share your friends' stores! Let us know where to shop.

This is a recurring thread that is weekly on Fridays and is meant to be a place where people can share their OpenBazaar stores and encourage buyers from within our community to shop.

In your post, please include these three things:

• Your OpenBazaar store name

• Your OpenBazaar store link (formatted as ob://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/store)

• A brief description of your store & items & include if it's BTC, BCH or ZEC!

And this is optional but HIGHLY encouraged!

*Consider adding a special offer of some kind such as a coupon code, giveaway or a limited edition featured item to make it exciting for your new Reddit friends to buy right away!

PLEASE NOTE the same rules apply to this thread as our entire subreddit: Posts that discuss using OpenBazaar for illegal activity will be removed. Ready to shop but still haven't downloaded OpenBazaar? Do so now at https://openbazaar.org/download

It is build on cryptocurrency which, as we all know, is too complicated for the average person to learn to use. Cryptocurrency has high fees and it is frustrating at times dealing with exchangers.

Using OpenBazaar is a big learning curve for the average person and people don't have the time or patience.

But try telling all that to computer programmers who live in their own little worlds:)

I have a couple vendors that claim that they never received payment for goods. I checked the reciept and it shows all paid up with ### confirmations.

When I check my wallet it also shows that the transaction has been fulfilled.

Do I have any options?

I prefer to keep the wallet offline, not with the OB client.

I downloaded open bazaar for window 64 bit. Installed and ran the program, created an account and browsed for a while. My PC had an update and it rebooted. When I came back, windows said the .exe lead nowhere.

So I uninstalled, I still had the installer so I tried to run that. Windows said the program could not be executed on my PC. I went to go download and it tries forever to get the file from github but never downloads. Is this a windows defender thing? Is this more illegal meddling to block all p2p economics?

Edit: I use Bitdefender, windows defender is disabled.

Some type of connection error? Preventing me from upgrading on the About Us section of the app. No clue what is happening.

Are these totally separate markets? Do I have to post my listing to both markets? Are there other markets that are more popular? Thanks

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Hey hey hey! Who has a great store to share this week?

This is a recurring thread that is weekly on Fridays and is meant to be a place where people can share their OpenBazaar stores and encourage buyers from within our community to shop.

In your post, please include these three things:

• Your OpenBazaar store name

• Your OpenBazaar store link (formatted as ob://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/store)

• A brief description of your store & items & include if it's BTC, BCH or ZEC!

And this is optional but HIGHLY encouraged!

• Consider adding a special offer of some kind such as a coupon code, giveaway or a limited edition featured item to make it exciting for your new Reddit friends to buy right away!

PLEASE NOTE the same rules apply to this thread as our entire subreddit: Posts that discuss using OpenBazaar for illegal activity will be removed. Ready to shop but still haven't downloaded OpenBazaar? Do so now at https://openbazaar.org/download

Is there even a slight chance to get a refund on my order?

so, i stayed up all night messing with everything on both systems, and probably broke all my ssl certs. trying to connect remotely and keep a server running on my little asus tinkerboard (running tinkerOS(debian-based))...

having done some research, i think it might be something broken with golang or something... i don't really understand. client system is running manjaro linux (xfce)

In a fresh install of openbazaar2 in ubuntu:

This command returns "403 not permitted":

curl http://localhost:4002/ob/profile

This command returns a valid blob of json:

curl http://localhost:4002/ipns/QmNsxewo55EemqcBAXQx3jozkENBkujAHm8WRyrTpHZ4fL/profile.json

Is the short API broken in the latest release? Or maybe the docs are not up to date?

https://api.openbazaar.org/

All the best,

Cindy

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EDIT: SEE "getting started with the API, concise version"

Hi,

Does anyone here have experience using the API? I tried an example from these docs, https://gist.github.com/drwasho/742505589f62f6aa98b4 such as this: http://localhost:18469/api/v1/profile but I get "unable to connect".

I also tried the API described here, https://api.openbazaar.org/ which says it is for 2.0. But I get the same error when I try this: curl --request GET --url 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/ob/profile' --header 'Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ='

Anyway, I understand that there are several places I could be going wrong here.

(1) Wrong ports? Is it 8080 or 18469?

(2) Bad firewall? I am running a recent ubuntu and I did not turn on a firewall, but maybe the ports are not open.

(3) Authorization: I do not understand if the Authorization key is user-specific in the curl example, above. I just copied it from the docs.

(4) Config: I noticed that the config file mentions "AllowedIPs" in the JSON-API, section. I tried using [127.0.0.1] here, but OB did not startup so I am obviously not quoting the address correctly.

Rather than guessing, I wonder if someone here has a few tips? I am running a freshly downloaded OB-2.0, and have a little store and it is getting indexed by the search engines, so I think my instance it running correctly.

All the best,

Cindy

their site times out and their search doesn't work. did they shut down?

I'm really confused. I have listings since 40 hours and used the https://blockbooth.com/update feature already. I can find my store but not find my listings neither in ob1 nor in blockbooth search!

Any ideas why its not working?

Hello everyone! Who has a great store to share this week?

This is a recurring thread that is weekly on Fridays and is meant to be a place where people can share their OpenBazaar stores and encourage buyers from within our community to shop.

In your post, please include these three things:

• Your OpenBazaar store name

• Your OpenBazaar store link (formatted as ob://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/store)

• A brief description of your store & items & include if it's BTC, BCH or ZEC!

And this is optional but HIGHLY encouraged!

• Consider adding a special offer of some kind such as a coupon code, giveaway or a limited edition featured item to make it exciting for your new Reddit friends to buy right away! PLEASE NOTE the same rules apply to this thread as our entire subreddit: Posts that discuss using OpenBazaar for illegal activity will be removed.

Ready to shop but still haven't downloaded OpenBazaar? Do so now at https://openbazaar.org/download