OpenBazaar marketplace says it's set to ‘grow again from the ashes’
After shutting down in 2020 due to financial issues and poor user growth, the decentralized marketplace appears set to rise again. The decentralized marketplace OpenBazaar appears set for a comeback after it was shut down over two years ago, according to a number of social media and GitHub updates. A GitHub repository on the collaborative software development site shows progress as recent as April 12 on building a new version of the marketplace which was shut down in 2020. Brian Hoffman, the former project lead at OpenBazaar and CEO of OB1 — the for-profit company which developed its software — tweeted on April 9 of the progress made on a “new” version of the marketplace saying it is “getting more interesting by the day.” Hitting 1,000 lines of code on the new @openbazaar repo. This is getting more interesting by the day. — brian hoffman (@brianchoffman) April 8, 2023 In the replies, Hoffman was asked how the marketplace would be different this timegiven that due to financial ...