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OpenBazaar / OpenBazaar-Client

(DEPRECATED) Front-end Electron application for talking with the OpenBazaar-Server daemon
MIT License
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Crowdfunding feature #1111

Open ghost opened 8 years ago

ghost commented 8 years ago

Imagine an author that wants to release a book/film/music in public domain.

Before releasing it for free for everyone (in a CC0 ou CC-BY license), he wants to receive at least 10.0 BTC for his work.

It would be nice to have an option to sell shares of a goal (i.e book release in public domain).

When all 100 shares items are sold out, each one costing 0.1 BTC, a download link with URL becomes visible to all users.

Dekker3D commented 8 years ago

This should be doable. Lighthouse has an on-chain way of doing it, we could simply integrate that same thing into OpenBazaar. Should work for both services and digital goods. Physical goods might be interesting too, for a Kickstarter-style thing, but that would complicate things a bit.

I mean, releasing the funds when the treshold is reached should be easy enough. Releasing when the actual service is completed, like releasing that book/film/music, would require some sort of oracle service.