Sam Patterson is the operations leader on OpenBazaar, and a co-founder of the company OB1. He's a former technology policy analyst at a free market think tank in Washington D.C., and wrote one of the first books about Bitcoin in 2013.
Sam Patterson is the operations leader on OpenBazaar, and a co-founder of the company OB1. He's a former technology policy analyst at a free market think tank in Washington D.C., and wrote one of the first books about Bitcoin in 2013.
Cryptocurrencies are decentralizing money, but online commerce is still highly centralized. OpenBazaar 2.0 has delivered on the promise of a decentralized marketplace that is easy to use. This talk explains why now is the time to shift our economic activity away from the tightly-controlled e-commerce websites and into this censorship-resistant, private, peer-to-peer marketplace. (2018-06-09)