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Neroshop is an experiment that aims to develop a fully and truly decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace where the base cryptocurrency(cies) used for transactions are private by default, meaning fungible and untraceable. Peers in the network can list products and services that they wish to sell and buyers can purchase from a listing using a built-in multisignature wallet escrow feature. What makes neroshop decentralized is that there are no central points of failure and each node in the network stores a portion of the database.
Bisq is a decentralized exchange for trading between cryptocurrencies and fiats while Neroshop is a decentralized marketplace for buying and selling either goods or services using the Monero cryptocurrency.
Neroshop is uncensorable and tries to be a marketplace where both "illicit" and non-illicit products can be listed. This is what makes it a true free market and why it often attracts DNM (dark net market) users who seek refuge from DNMs that have either shutdown, exit-scammed or been taken down by government entities to the platform.
Neroshop will support 3 types of payment options:
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Escrow: 2 of 3 multisignature wallet that involves a third party which is likely to be a neroshop core team member. Transactions can be disputed if both buyer and seller do not come to an agreement (this option requires a fee of 0.5% of order total). -
Multisig: 2 of 2 multisignature wallet that involves only the buyer and seller. Both parties will receive unique private keys that they can use to sign a transaction. Funds are gone forever if both buyer and seller do not come to an agreement on a transaction. The neroshop team will not be held responsible for any losses. -
Finalize: This payment method allows a buyer to send a payment directly to the seller's wallet address. This method of payment is not recommended unless the seller can be trusted.
The basic principals that we follow for this project are: privacy-first, free market principals, and finally, ease-of-use.
We are looking to support other cryptocurrencies, specifically cryptocurrencies that are proven to be private by default. Other cryptocurrencies that the creator of this project has considered supporting are Wownero and Zano. It might be easier to fork the project to support coins like Bitcoin and Wownero.
Because neroshop is decentralized and censorship-resistant, illegal listings such as CSAM cannot be censored. In order to combat this issue, neroshop hides illicit listings by default. This can only be turned on manually but not from within the GUI application itself. Though this is ineffective in preventing CSAM from being listed, it is better than nothing.
Very soon, peers will be able to blacklist certain nodes' b32.i2p addresses and in the near future, users will also have the ability to block certain listings from being displayed. There may also be a "flag" feature where users can warn other users about dangerous listings.
And no, I won't be implementing any bond-burn mechanism for CSAM because it will affect even innocent sellers and make them a target for the feds (who surely have the resources) to take down their listings. There are other better solutions that I will definitely look at to combat this issue without having to censor any listing. I don't want to see any CSAM listings either, but this idea goes against the whole point of neroshop being an uncensorable free market. To even propose an idea such as this, is just bizarre and proves to me that you are certainly part of the "think about the children" crowd or you're probably a fed agent trying to sabotage the project.
- Even if you don't know how to code in C++, you can contribute by building the project and testing it to find any bugs or vulnerabilities within the program and reporting back to us. This can help us to fix the bugs and improve the code.
- Suggest features that you would like to be added and give us any further suggestions on how we can improve the user experience.
- You can also support the project by donating, but sharing this project with others or helping us find experienced developers would be even more helpful than donating.
- If you are a web developer, you can help us develop our website and help us host local servers like Gitea, a Monero node or even a neroshop node on our subdomains. In fact, we are desparately looking for a trusted website admin to look after our website.
- Lastly, you can contribute to this project by sharing ideas and code (in any language) that could help us further improve the quality and functionality of our codebase.
The goal is to enable i2p for routing your internet traffic by default so that your IP address will not be exposed to prying eyes. Also, no account credentials are stored or recorded so that means you hold the keys to your account, and definitely not the neroshop team. Messages will also encrypted using user's RSA or PGP public keys and must be decrypted using the corresponding private keys.
Users are identified by their monero primary address and optional display name (if they choose to create one)
Yes, there is a built-in DHT-powered messaging system that encrypts not only the content but the sender of the message as well. Messages are also verified using Monero digital signatures.
For sellers, running a node would be like running a business so there won't be a need for incentives. Listings are self-hosted and are never published to the network, so sellers must keep their node running if they want their listings to be visible to any peer that contacts their node.
In the near future, a new feature is expected to be introduced where users with the highest reputation and most trades can serve as arbitrators for the 2-of-3 escrow system. These users will be incentivized for fulfilling their role effectively.
- The fact that there is a hidden force or group of entities as well as a legalized mafia with a monopoly on violence who want to create a world of total surveillance and control with their CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies). I also strongly believe that sales taxes (including GST/VAT) and all other forms of taxation are total scams and are not necessary in a free world.
Complaining about it would not solve anything. The only solution is to create an alternative system or parallel economy where humanity can be free from such atrocities.
- This is the second biggest project I've worked on (and will surely be my last). While my past projects have failed, I have high hopes that this one will succeed. When I first started working on this project, I did not know a thing about C++ smart pointers or what the heck a DHT even is. My networking sockets knowledge was also limited and very basic (and it still kinda is). So I'd say that I've come a long way. I've made tons of mistakes, but I'm improving little by little.
This project gives me the opportunity to test my skills, to do something that seems impossible for many, and to just have something to do with my free time/something to obsess over in my free time he-he 😁 ...
- I want to make a living off this of course, duh 🤑 !