BitHappy and OpenBazaar are positioned to lead the bitcoin CT r: 5 goods trading software race, as both platforms prepare for a December launch. CoinTelegraph CT r: 27 reached out the dev teams to understand more about each software. Brian Hoffman, lead developer of OpenBazaar, gave us his point of view on both projects. Two Apps With Similar Objectives If you want to sell goods online or in your physical shop for bitcoins, you still need to set up a website, a shopping cart or a POS that supports Bitcoin. In this, a store accepting Bitcoin is not much different from one that accepts traditional credit card. Both BitHappy and OpenBazaar look to deploy immediate options to create functional, complete, “Bitcoin only” stores. The BitHappy Solution By integrating with the Mycelium CT r: 74 Wallet , users get a full featured solution to set up a store. Stores come complete with photos, descriptions, prices and payments in bitcoin. It’s a matter of minutes, really, just take a picture of your product, add a description, price, category, a video maybe, and sell the item for bitcoins. On top of the store management, the app will also allow the user to search items and services sold for bitcoins both locally and globally. OpenBazaar Aims Higher At the moment, the most straightforward competitor to this app is probably OpenBazaar, a very interesting open source project that is already downloadable at beta stage on GitHub. And although the official release date is still unknown, Brian Hoffman assured us that the project is 87% completed and it should be released by the end of this year. Discussing the differences between the two projects, Hoffman said: “The UI [of BitHappy] is very unpolished and tells me that they haven’t put a ton of thought into […]
