Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1YoZbt-0002XE-Fo for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 02 May 2015 15:45:45 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from s151.web-hosting.com ([162.213.255.69]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) id 1YoZbr-0004bm-3j for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 02 May 2015 15:45:45 +0000 Received: from localhost ([::1]:51272 helo=server151.web-hosting.com) by server151.web-hosting.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1YoZbj-002GCp-IO; Sat, 02 May 2015 11:45:36 -0400 Received: from 97.95.172.50 ([97.95.172.50]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user metamarc@metamarket.biz) by server151.web-hosting.com with HTTP; Sat, 2 May 2015 11:45:35 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <7cfbfe793dd4be50dd97cfc1fe937880.squirrel@server151.web-hosting.com> Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 11:45:35 -0400 From: "Marc D. Wood" To: "Melvin Carvalho" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.2 [SVN] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server151.web-hosting.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.sourceforge.net X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - metamarket.biz X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: server151.web-hosting.com: authenticated_id: metamarc@metamarket.biz X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-From-Rewrite: unmodified, already matched X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. X-Headers-End: 1YoZbr-0004bm-3j Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] [ANN] METAmarket - Trustless Federated Marketplaces X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 15:45:45 -0000 On Fri, May 1, 2015 10:01 pm, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > Is there any relation between this and the work satoshi was putting into > the core before he left? > > https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/5253d1ab77fab1995ede03fb934edd6 > 7f1359ba8 > > Melvin, This is certainly a similar concept. It is a software for creating markets with variable levels of privacy and censorship resistance. It is built directly on top of Bitcoin Core and Bitmessage. I believe this project to be in the spirit of Satoshi's original plan for a bitcoin marketplace but it is not the same project, and I certainly am not Satoshi. :) Marc D. Wood