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	* [https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar Official project page] at [[GitHub]]		* [https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar Official project page] at [[GitHub]]
	* [https://bazaarbay.org/stats Network statistics] at [[BazaarBay]]		* [https://bazaarbay.org/stats Network statistics] at [[BazaarBay]]

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	* {{Official website\|https://openbazaar.org/}}
	* [https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar Official project page] at [[GitHub]]		* [https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar Official project page] at [[GitHub]]
	* [https://bazaarbay.org/stats Network statistics] at [[BazaarBay]]		* [https://bazaarbay.org/stats Network statistics] at [[BazaarBay]]

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'''OpenBazaar''', formerly known as '''DarkMarket''', is an [[open source]] [[Decentralization|decentralized]] online marketplace designed for [[e-commerce]], using the [[cryptocurrency]] [[bitcoin]].

== History ==
Programmer and [[bitcoin]] enthusiast [[Amir Taaki]] and a team of other developers created the prototype of a decentralized marketplace, entitled "DarkMarket", in April 2014 at a Toronto Bitcoin Hackathon.<ref name=wired-darkmarket-prototype>{{cite web | url = http://www.wired.com/2014/04/darkmarket | title = Inside the 'DarkMarket' Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize | last = Greenberg | first = Andy | publisher = ''[[Wired (website)|Wired]]'' | date = 2014-04-24 | accessdate = August 23, 2014}}</ref> DarkMarket was developed as a [[proof of concept]] in response to the seizure of the [[Darknet market|online marketplace]] [[Silk Road (marketplace)|Silk Road]] in October 2013. Taaki compared DarkMarket's improvements on Silk Road to [[BitTorrent]]'s improvements on [[Napster]].<ref name=wired-darkmarket-prototype/>

Soon after DarkMarket was revealed at the hackathon, developer Brian Hoffman forked the project and renamed it "OpenBazaar", which continues to receive active development as of June 2015.<ref name=guardian-darkmarket-rebrands>{{cite web | url = http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/30/silk-road-darkmarket-openbazaar-online-drugs-marketplace | title = Silk Road successor DarkMarket rebrands as OpenBazaar | last = Hern | first = Alex | publisher = ''[[The Guardian]]'' | date = 2014-04-30 | accessdate = August 23, 2014}}</ref> OpenBazaar, like DarkMarket before it, was initially licensed under the [[Affero General Public License|GNU AGPLv3]], but after a discussion by the developers it was relicensed under the [[MIT License|MIT license]] on September 8, 2014.<ref name=openbazaar-license-change>{{cite web | url = https://blog.openbazaar.org/openbazaar-is-now-mit-licensed/ | title = OpenBazaar is now MIT licensed | last = Zindros | first = Dionysis | publisher = OpenBazaar Blog | date = 2014-09-08 | accessdate = September 16, 2014}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Silk Road (marketplace)]]
* [[Nxt]]
* [[Darknet market]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://openbazaar.org/}}
* [https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar Official project page] at [[GitHub]]
* [https://bazaarbay.org/stats Network statistics] at [[BazaarBay]]