"Squeak Road" is a new app in the Umbrel app store that lets anyone run their own darknet market.
Just go to the app store and install the app, and you are now the admin of a darknet market.
You can share the onion address publicly so that buyers and sellers can find your market.
All payments and withdrawals use lightning network.
As the admin of your market, all you have to do is set the fee rate, and approve/reject listings from sellers.
Anyone has success creating listings? Also somewhat annoying that it makes requests to gstatic for fonts :(
When trying to create listing it redirects to login page even though I'm already logged in (as admin). @yzernik
You can only create a listing with a non-admin account. There should be a more clear error message for this.
This initial journey would be great to solve, because otherwise it adds annoying friction in the initial phase. E.g. if you really need to force that admin can't have listings, then you could automatically create user account for the admin. I'm saying this because a lot of people that will want to create a market are doing that because they actually want to sell something and practically speaking that's the only way to really bootstrap the economy around the market.
Useful metric here would be the time from installation to the first listing...
Thanks for the feedback. We'll try to put out a new release that makes it more clear the difference between admin and non-admin roles.
The fonts requests issues has been fixed: https://github.com/yzernik/squeakroad/releases/tag/v0.1.11
Now the static font files are saved locally.
Perfect, thanks! :)
For DNM there are more optimizations that you could consider to make it work well over Tor, like including initial css in the index.html response directly, so it doesn't have to make another request.
Very nice. Everyone should run a personal darknet market Free Ross Ulbricht he did nothing wrong
He lost all my support with his murder-for-hire attempts.
People keep bringing this up. Why do you think he wasn't he charged with murder-for-hire?
It's hard to parse (from Wikipedia):
I guess we'll never know. But it's easy for the lay person to be confused on the matter.
New York and Maryland are some of the most anti-america, corrupt and Gulag-like courts in the US.
They will fabricate evidence and gin up ANY charges to send a message.
Don't trust the US judiciary in these places, also, California. :)
I am not sure, but I think it's probably because he is already serving a double life sentence and it was judged unnecessary to spend further resources on prosecuting him. Prosecutors have that kind of discretion:
That's pretty cool. One could use it for more that darknet-stuff maybe I could use it for all my craigslist stuff.
Only needs a big adoption userbase now ,😁😁
Love it! Bitcoin enables free markets, no matter what the people in power say.
Everyone here ignoring the fact that LN privacy for receiver sucks. So this would be very foolish to use the platform for illegal and risky activities. Fortunately privacy for both sides is coming ! Apart that it looks interesting.
You have to be very careful about privacy if you are going to use it.
Do you have any specifics about what privacy improvements are coming? eltoo? PTLCs?
Look around for blind routings, don't remember which dev is working on this. Once we hace good privacy for both sides (sender and receiver), will be game changer. At the onchain level soon we won't make the difference between multisig channel opening and classic multisig, because taproot !
in the ol days there were discussions or visions to have a market in bitcoinqt. still remembering the coffee button?
feels like a rare hydra moment to me.
Yooo, awesome work!
Auctions would be great too
I know I'm really late to this thread but I have recently enabled my instance of squeakroad and set up marketplace where users can buy/sell all types of watches. You could be the first one to set up your vendor account here: http://tf6utnjwa2oqnm4hfn3eofbfidfikviathmf7c7bhmxcrh2gimcdveid.onion
Also shout out to @yzernik for this project!
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You can see the Umbrel gallery images here: https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-apps-gallery/commit/4b4c2f4f3dfb504ba0f9fbf8949e91daea6bf1dc
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Is it really an escrow if the seller can simply click a button to receive payment?
Not really. It's just to make sure that the seller agrees to ship the selected quantity of items to the provided address.
Once the seller has marked the order as shipped, they are staking their reputation on the buyer rating.
So it really comes down to a reputation system.
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Also... you should get a node :)
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It's a market where the market owner, sellers, and buyers are all anonymous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_market
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