Our main focus in the last 2 weeks has been removing errors associated with the new version of BitBoost Marketplace. BBM now runs on the live Ethereum network and new problems have surfaced which were not present in the Ropsten test version. Two of our live network errors were gas…

(Find the first two parts of these series here and here). Scaling your marketplace. Once your marketplace is built, tested and released for public use, you need to scale. Here are some pointers to help you attract and keep new users. With the successful launch of your marketplace and the acquisition of your…

Tech Update November 20, 2018 In the last 2 weeks we have made major strides towards a version 1.4 release, using IPFS with the Ethereum blockchain. The BitBoost team has solved all bugs in the Ropsten buy-sell flow for this hybrid architecture. More importantly, our first mainnet version is already being tested. When testing is…

What can you make with our Open Source solution? (2) We provide all the tools you will need to launch your app. After that, start gathering your community and building network effect on the blockchain. BitBoost’s Open Source Project (OSP) provides a suite of powerful tools to enable developers to build their own marketplace applications. As we discussed in our…

Today BitBoost is releasing the first beta of BitBoost Marketplace that includes partial use of the Interplanetary File System (IPFS). You can download the Windows version of the app from our Github Page. The Mac OS is coming soon! This beta runs on the Rospten test network. It is not…

Shapeshift integration and BitBoost One of the core principles of BitBoost is an unshakeable respect for your privacy. We do not believe that you should have to turn over personal data to use a service. For this reason, we monitor the privacy policies of the third-party services we have integrated into BitBoost Marketplace. …

The BitBoost Team is continuing to develop version 1.4 of the Marketplace. As mentioned last time, we are moving a large portion of our data storage to IPFS (the Interplanetary File System), and today we’ll talk more about this. One way to implement IPFS is to make each user’s computer…

The potential of blockchain for international e-commerce — The game-changing implications of blockchain lend themselves to diverse industries and sectors. The academic community has now begun to explore some of the commercial possibilities, as well as critiquing and helping to refine the core technology. …

It’s been a long road in our quest to create a decentralised mass-market e-commerce platform. We’ve been working on this in one form or another for over four years. …