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Trade verticals in OpenBazaar refers to types of markets that can be built on top of the platform. In the theory section of the Github ReadmeI have attempted to describe in minor detail how different types of markets can be built on the platform.
One question we are often asked is 'can OpenBazaar support X market? The answer is yes if the terms and conditions can be fully represented in a RC and Bitcoin is being used for the trade in exchange or to collateralise an exchange. The challenge for market developers is to design RCs that capture the semantic detail of a trade to:.
To incentivise good performance by each party, surety bonds can also be written into the contract. Surety bonds essentially reward or penalise a trading party based on performance criteria, which would be clearly stated within the RC.
It is becoming increasingly clear that OpenBazaar will become a powerful platform that will support a variety of peer-to-peer market transactions. One of the most fundamental market transaction types is the auction of a good by a seller to discover the market price. In this article, we cover one possible way of auctioning a good using Ricardian contracts.
It should be noted that this proposal essentially describes the 'back-end' of implementing Ricardian contracts into auctions on OpenBazaar. It is important that the end-user i.
The merchant firstly selects an auction template contract in OpenBazaar. In this type of contract, the product and auction details of the good to be sold are entered into required fields within the JSON or XML file. The product auction details would include:. For example, let's imagine Alice wants to sell a yellow pinata on OpenBazaar.
Bob accesses the contract and chooses to bid on the pinata, appending his ID details and the bid price. Alice may receive five different bids on the yellow pinata and according to her conditions, the originally contract is updated with the latest bid price.
At the end of the expiration date of the contract, Alice digitally signs the final winning bid contractsends it to the arbiter for digitally signing and creating a multisignature bitcoin address for the winning bidder, Bob. If Alice digitally signs the contract, the contract is sent to an arbiter for sigining and creation of the multisignature bitcoin address for Bob, the winning bidder, to send funds to.
As a reward for hosting the contract, the negotiator node is rewarded by a fee paid for by Alice via another multisignature address setup with anoter arbiter. If Alice disapproves of how the contract was negotiated by the negotiator node on her behalf, she can simply refuse to sign the contract and raise a dispute to the arbiter for a refund of the fee from the multisignature address.
For the seller Aliceshe can have confidence that the funds for the item actually exist once Bob has sent the required amount of bitcoins to the multisignature bitcoin address, upon which she will ship the item to Bob's designated address.
Similarly for Bob, he can retrieve the funds from the multisignature address if he can prove to the arbiter's satisfaction that he goods either did not arrive, or did not arrive in the condition specified in the contract. To further promote good behavior, the arbiter may require a surety bond from one or both parties.
The surety bond is a quantity of bitcoins sent from either the buyer or seller or both held in a multisignature bitcoin address that is refundable upon a successful trade. If a dispute arises, and one party is found to be at malicious fault, the funds within the surety bond are transferred to the arbiter and opposing party as compensation. A non-malicious versus malicous fault may be, for example, a shipping comapany damaging the goods during transport non-malicious versus the seller knowingly sending a damaged good malicious.
The value of the surety bond is negotiable and completely optional. A service contract in OpenBazaar replaces a physical good to be sold with the terms and conditions of a service to be performed by one party. The distinction between a good and service within a Ricardian contract is minimal. Morever, the combination of reputation management and surety bonds can ensure a robust service industry within OpenBazaar.
The final format of a service contract is of course comparable to that of a physical good. Similar to physical goods, there are several discovery mechanisms for services on OpenBazaar. For the sake of simplicity, we will examine two types of service contracts that can be supported in OpenBazaarfollowing the Ricardian contract model:. A call for bids, call for tenders, or invitation to tender ITT often called tender for short is a special procedure for generating competing offers from different bidders looking to obtain an award of business activity in works, supply, or service contracts Open tenders, open calls for tenders, or advertised tenders are open to all vendors or contractors who can guarantee performance.
The first type of contract is an invitation to tender ITTwhereby a client publishes their list of requirements for a desired good or service. In the context of a service, these details are specified within a Ricardian contract and distributed to potential service providers in the OpenBazaar network. Relevant ITT contract details include:.
The details of the contract can be further negotiated between the parties before a contract is double-signed i.
For example, if Alice wanted to deliver some cupcakes to a co-worker on the other side of the city, she writes the following Ricardian-contract as an ITT:.
Bob, owner of 'Raven Drone Courier', is interested in securing the contract. In order for a service provider to place a bid on a contract, they prepare a 'tender' that will append the following details to Alice's contract:. The contract is then sent to Alice.
Alice may receive tens or hundreds of bidding contracts to her ITT and can filter the bidding contracts according to their price, delivery time, reputation etc. Once Alice chooses the winning bid contract, and provided she has not finer details to negotiate, she digitally signs contract and sends copies to the bidder and an arbiter to setup the multisignature address.
These applications would issue tenders for goods or services on the TradeNetreceive bids and automatically purchase contracts based on algorithmically-determined conditions factoring in price, proximity, time etc. This is achievable using Ricardian contracts as they are both human and application readable, permitting human-application exchanges without either party known the true identity of each other if so desired.
The second type of service contract is called a service listingwhere service providers can advertise their services to potential clients in the hope of receiving a quotation request. The service listing will be formatted as a Ricardian contract including the following fields:. A potential client can request a quote from the a service provider by drawing up a fresh service contract according their requirements that includes a hash of the service listing.
The inclusion of the hash indicates that the client is requesting a quote based off the specifications advertised by the service provider's service listing. From here, the contract is negotiated between both parties as described above prior to double and triple digital signing to initate the contract. A surety bond can be created to cover a failed contract, which either partially or fully remediates the costs of the failed contract for the damaged party. These smaller surety bonds can be called 'good performance bonds' GPB.
For example, GPB may be written to penalise a service provider or supplier for failing to meet a contractually obligated deadline.
Another example is a GPB for the client to follow the terms and conditions of the service specified in the contract i. The GPB can be factored as a deduction for the service provider's fee for the sake of simplicity, which can be carefully monitored by the arbiter. Within the contract, a GPB can be formatted within the following fields using the example above:. The inclusion of GPBs would occur from the outset of the contract's formation, requiring both parties to digitially sign to indicate their agreement.
The arbiter can verify the authenticity and integrity of these terms by both party's digital signatures and contract hashes, as per a normal Ricardian contract. Banks are centralised institutions that, among other things, offer credit to individuals, groups and corporations.
Historically, banks were a nexus of borrowers and lenders, matching the supply of liquidity to the demand for credit. The primary role of a bank was risk management in the form of the due diligence required to assess if a potential borrower was a worthwhile investment. With the advent of nation-state money printing and fractional-reserve banking, whereby money is lent into existence and losses are publicly subsidized by inflation and bailouts, the traditional care of risk management for loans has all but been obiliterated.
Peer-to-peer P2P lending has emerged as a means to decentralise the oligopolistic hold that banks possess in every category for lending. Using Bitcoin, this legacy threat is largely eliminated, but introduces new problems in the traditional approach of risk management. The purpose of this article is to suggest possible solutions to these problems and how they might be executed on a pseudonymous censorship-resistant marketplace like OpenBazaar.
As with other goods and services on OpenBazaarthe loan is drawn up as a Ricardian-style contract that I will refer to as the loan contract for the rest of the article. Bob wants to borrow mBTC. The following fields are introduced in the loan contract:.
If Alice wants to change the terms of part of the contract, she can write, sign and send a fresh contract to Bob. If Bob disagrees, he can simply ignore the contract, or sign it if the change in terms acceptable e.
Note that this is the only stage where this can happen as once both parties have signed the terms of the contract, it is locked-in as far as dispute resolution is concerned.
Bob debtor confirms that the loan will proceed and appends a signed transaction releasing the funds into his control. For every repayment, Bob appends to the loan contract evidence of the repayment addresses being funded along with the outstanding balance of the loan, until it is paid off. The process above has thus far described how the loan contract is created and processed for auditing purposes by the arbiter.
However, it has not dealt with how loan contracts will be protected from fraud by bad actors on OpenBazaar. Traditionally, there are two major ways to manage risk for potential loans:. As a credit rating often involves an individual disclosing their income and previous financial dealings to the creditor and other third parties, the concept of a traditional credit rating is incompatible with the goals and purpose of OpenBazaar.
New and innovative solutions are required assess the credit-worthiness of an individual in a pseudonymous marketplace. A borrower must provide collateral to the creditor before a loan is approved. Collateral can be any good belonging to the borrower that has an equivalent value to the amount being loaned. In case of a credit default, the creditor can physically possess the collateral to recover their losses.
Taking the web of trust concept one step further, OpenBazaar can facilitate peers extending lines of credit to each other. Bob can borrow this money at any time according to the prescribed conditions set by Alice. The funds can be kept in a 2-of-3 multisignature address, using an arbiter as a third signature. This line of credit can be publicly disclosed and audited by other peers.
The aggregate of a pseudonym's line of credit becomes a powerful and informative risk signal for other peers, with risk being inversely proportional to the sum total line of credit. The line of credit can be considered as collateral by a potential creditor, knowing that a pseudonym's line of credit can be called upon to satisfy a renumberation of second loan. For individual extending lines of credit, they have an opportunity to invest in successful and well-regarded trade partners.
In OpenBazaarcollateral can be transferred by digitally signing possession of a user-created asset, represented by a Ricardian contract. Briefly, Jack may posses 0. Jack writes a contract stating that he has possession of 0. To sign ownership of that contract to another individual, Jill, Jack can create a fresh contract with the following data:.
The new contract is then digitally signed with Jack's private key. Now, this entire process assumes that Jack actually has 0. The burden of proof will be on Jack to demonstrate to Jill that contract is valid.
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The discussion about the potential impact of the Blockchain on the construction industry is getting more and more intense lately. However, there are still many steps that need to be taken before we can claim the Blockchain is a vital part of the building process. Before we analyse further how the Blockchain could affect construction, it would be a good idea to provide some insight into what it actually is.
The Blockchain technology dates toas a result of the endeavour for establishing a digital currency. The cryptocurrency called Bitcoin is probably the most representative example. The Blockchain is a new way to store and record transactions.
To put it simply, we could define the Blockchain as a peer-to-peer controlled distributed transactional database. A digital ledger where different types of agreements eg contracts, financial transactions are recorded and confirmed as completed.
Its main difference to traditional databases is that it lacks the need for a central authority. There is no blockchain architecture terms and conditions, such as a bank transferring money or a blockchain architecture terms and conditions to confirm the conditions of a contract. In that sense, there is no single database or company on which it blockchain architecture terms and conditions.
Every node in the Blockchain is containing some type of information, which in a nutshell could be categorised to the following:. This allows for a faster and more secure way of data exchange. In other words, it encourages the exclusion of intermediary parties in a transaction which takes place between two distinct members of the same peer to peer network.
The Blockchain is continuously attracting more and more attention due to its incredible versatility. In some ways, it could help construction and add more transparency to every type of agreement and transaction in a construction project. Below are some blockchain architecture terms and conditions the main reasons why the Blockchain could be, under certain circumstances, a beneficial technology for construction — and many other industries:.
The Blockchain technology could function as a trustworthy contract administrator by introducing an error-free process based on which the contracts would be both built and monitored. A smart contract is nothing more than a digital protocol built within the Blockchain network in order to implement the conditions of a contract. Every node is containing all the necessary information about the contractual agreement and the conditions under which the contract will be regarded as completed.
If a bricklayer is done with building the wall, then he asks for it to be inspected. If the inspection is successful then the bricklayer is paid. They can be registered on the Blockchain and cryptocurrency can be used in order for these contracts to be collateralised. In a nutshell, more direct transactions can be encouraged through smart contracts. Nevertheless, the question, why the Blockchain is a necessity for a process like that to be established, remains.
The Blockchain could optimise significantly the project workflow and enhance blockchain architecture terms and conditions working. More analytically, it could incentivise transparency during the construction process and push project members to perform better. Increased transparency signifies increased accountability and a better control of the project in general.
A more open building process will eventually lead to a better blockchain architecture terms and conditions of industry and client interests while minimising disputes and risk.
On top of that, updates about the project could be delivered to everyone in real-time eg delivery of materials on site. The implementation of BIM technology might also be more effective thanks to the Blockchain. This element can allow for a more up-front approach in terms of decision-making and increase liability between the various parties.
As a continuation of the discussion about smart contracts, the Blockchain could boost collaboration and transparency with the use of bitcoin for construction. According to Construction Manager magazinethere are already two projects, initiated by DotBuiltEnvironmenttowards that blockchain architecture terms and conditions Regarding the ConstructCoin, the project is mainly focusing on the production and proper management of data related to construction.
Similarly to the bitcoin, a reward will be introduced for anyone who generated construction information. As far as the TraderTransferTrust app is concerned, the main idea is to put together a system that could digitally provide valid proofs of task completion and based on these proofs it will be able to trigger payments.
Lastly, the Construction Blockchain Consortium is a public research umbrella which explores the potential benefits that the Blockchain could have for construction. Its mission is based on three main pillars: With more than 60 participants at the moment, the Construction Blockchain Consortium initiative has the potential to pull great weight.
But so far it is mostly a structure to start discussing opportunities. In that sense, the advent of the Blockchain in construction may not be as effective as we might think. In terms of infrastructure and administration systems, construction does not seem fully prepared to embrace the Blockchain. It is evident, then, that before we introduce smart contracts, for example, we have to build the right context that will accommodate them. There is a strong blockchain architecture terms and conditions for the building process to be restructured and come closer to the needs of the supply chain.
Only then, we can introduce smart blockchain architecture terms and conditions technology as a supportive rather than a punishing measure. For instance, one thing that the Bitcoin or blockchain architecture terms and conditions other established crypto-currency could do is to cut the invoice payment path.
A smart contract could be created involving data generated by real-time project management software, an inspection checklist app and drone imagery certifying that a part of a 3D drawing stands built as designed. Currently, the exchange rates are probably too fluctuating to be interesting for this case, but in the future, they can reach to a stabilised state. A strong but in any case representative title regarding the present and future of construction.
Lack of investment in innovation, limited collaboration, and structural fragmentation are only a few of the problems that the UK and global construction are battling against.
With this problematic situation in mind, it becomes evident that an extensive implementation of the Blockchain technology in construction may not be realistic before we heavily invest in digitization.
A representative example could be smart contracts. That could happen with the help of drone technology and real-time data connected to project and inspection management.
This claim can become stronger if we consider that some of the advantages eg. All in all, the Blockchain is undoubtedly a very interesting technology regardless of the industry you are in.
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Below are some of the main reasons why the Blockchain could be, under certain circumstances, a beneficial technology for construction — and many other industries: Improved workflow The Blockchain could optimise significantly the project workflow and enhance collaborative working.
Bitcoin for construction As a continuation of the discussion about smart contracts, the Blockchain could boost collaboration and transparency with the use of bitcoin for construction.
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