Saturday 29 August 2015

I Am Pleased to Announce a Working Release of the Drop Zone Protocol - a Decentralized Marketplace Layer Written Fully on top of Bitcoin

It is a command line client written in Ruby. It allows for the selling, buying, and facilitation of secure messaging between buyers and sellers using nothing but the Blockchain and testnet. For those unfamiliar with the project, I released the original paper on the cryptography mailing list.

Github Link

Rubygem Link

It is a command line only client for now, but it is perfectly functional, written in Ruby, and tested to the hilt.

  • Install ruby. This program was built on version 2.2.1

  • gem install dropzone_ruby

  • Run "dropzone help" to get started

  • Fund a testnet and mainnet key with BTC/tBTC

  • Create a seller or buyer profile, and start using Drop Zone

The immediate application for Drop Zone is as a nationwide marketplace. However, it is my hope that as adoption increases, Drop Zone will provide instantaneous, convenient hyper-local market services as well.

I hope for active community participation. I would like to see users push for Drop Zone integrations in their preferred mobile wallets, and I hope that those interested in decentralized markets will take up the torch and begin building interesting applications on top of this protocol. All at once, Drop Zone solves the problem of disappearing marketplaces and their associated exit scams w/o need for running any additional supporting infrastructure. Drop Zone is Bitcoin.

Please recognize, in the midst of this blocksize debate, that fungibility is truly the biggest problem facing Bitcoin. Please use the software and begin issuing bug requests. Also, while the Drop Zone release is at the forefront of everyone's minds, I ask that the r/dropzone subreddit be created. Feel free to make me a mod, though I will be moving on to other things as soon I feel like the project is in good hands.

If you are the owner of the following wallets please contact me on Drop Zone:

  • 1PFk4BEZnw5Y2Tzo7TNr8vK8m5n95k1RcR

  • 19aACUwHD5e1wRQpZKaLiiinfxnNFNGSgh

  • 17iUc7dvA8jiCgGouxG2E2b1K3c6Hv8N1H

  • 1Kg24iZDKax1e4CFR6gCCaQCfs2DL4CiBe



Submitted August 30, 2015 at 10:34AM by _miracle-max_ http://bit.ly/1LCYY49

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