The SAFE network: Giving a decentralised internet back to the people
The internet has become a large part of everyday life, approximately 40% of the world’s population has a connection, and we use it in a myriad of different ways. Communication, financial transactions, education, research, real-time updates, online bookings, job searches, blogging, shopping, and storage all add to an ever-increasing amount of digitized information.
The race is on to grab usernames for bitcoin powered decentralized marketplace, OpenBazaar
Centralized services such as eBay, Amazon, and Alibaba have come to dominate the world of online commerce. [OpenBazaar](http://OpenBazaar) offers a different approach, connecting buyers and sellers directly. The open source project is creating a decentralized network for peer to peer commerce, using Bitcoin for payments. Instead of visiting a website, you download and install a program on your computer that directly connects you to other people looking to buy and sell goods and services, removing the middlemen altogether.
Bitcoin-only decentralized marketplace, Rein, targets growing freelance industry
If developer David Sterry has his way, the freelance websites of the world, including Upwork, fiverr, peopleperhour, and eLance, won't be around much longer.
Sneak Peek at Bitcoin’s upcoming killer app – Open Bazaar
Open Bazaar is now in its final days of coding and we're taking a closer look under the hood. Here's what Bitcoin's Killer App will look like and how it will work.
German youth is arrested for darkweb trades, while decentralised markets come online
A German court jailed a young man last week who allegedly ran a multi-million-euro drugs business on the darknet. Almost a tonne of illegal narcotics were sold from his bedroom.
Tribler Makes Bittorrent Anonymous, Private, And Decentralized
[Tribler](http://tribler.org/) is P2P a file sharing software that has been improving the Bittorrent protocol since 2001. Featuring a Tor-like anonymity network and a decentralized search engine, it may be the most private and decentralized torrenting software in existence.
Augur Crowdsale Nearing 2000 BTC
[Augur](http://www.augur.net/) is an open source, decentralized prediction market platform that is being built on Ethereum. Designed to allow participants to wager money on any future event of their choosing, the crowdsale is approaching 2000 BTC, raised in just 12 hours.
OpenBazaar And OB1 To Launch By Thanksgiving 2015
[OpenBazaar](news/openbazaar-team-raises-1-million/) Project Lead Brian Hoffman has announced a release date for the Open Source marketplace platform, together with the first “value added” business built on top of it, [OB1](http://ob1.io/). The announcement was made during the [San Diego Bitcoin Meetup](https://youtu.be/19mUr86id2U), streamed live on July 16.
Blockchain Apps: Moving from the Jungle to the Zoo
As 'Decentralization' becomes a Buzzword, the differences between 'Blockchain Apps' and 'Decentralized Apps' require some classification. End-users want to know: 'What is the benefit to me?' & 'Why should I participate?' Understanding the differences becomes all the more important for consumer-focused 'bitcoin companies'.
Decentralization Is Near: Interview With Vikram Kumar Of Swerl.io
Ex-CEO of MEGA & Internet NZ talks Decentralization, Regulation and his new start-up Swerl IO and the invention of the C-WEB ahead of the public announcement at the Bitcoin South Conference.
