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Building On Bitcoin With Plebeian Market
Company Name
Plebeian.Market
What product are you building?
Plebeian Market is building a distributed peer-to-peer, value-4-value alternative to Ebay and Amazon for sovereign individuals and merchants who are transitioning to the bitcoin standard. It's a virtual bitcoin marketplace for anyone interested in opting into and building the bitcoin circular economy. By simply using the platform users are also helping to generate funds for other bitcoin open-source projects like those listed on OpenSats, Geyser and defendingbtc.com.
What does it do?
It allows merchants to run their own bitcoin powered ecommerce store whilst benefitting from the marketing of a network. It allows merchants to be self sovereign by connecting their nodes, if they choose and the marketplace is incredibly lightweight, no bells and whistles, no additional 3rd party hosting. Users can decide how much they wish to contribute to open source projects when they list, bid and buy items on the platform.
Why do you think we need it?
Sites like Ebay and Amazon are gargantuan blackholes of traffic and being centralised can and have censored merchants they don’t like whilst promoting those that they do. Plebeian Market gives sovereign merchants an alternative to using those sites whilst benefiting from having their products displayed on multiple other websites.
It is most useful to communities whether geographical or topical e.g. farming networks such as Untapped Growth or The Beef Initiative can build up a network of farmers selling products with a similar ethos OR countryside communities wanting to support local makers and growers OR antique shops in France OR small organic farmers in Germany, just to name a few!
Whilst solutions like Woocommerce (which we love) or BTCPayServer (we worship the ground they walk on) provide excellent solutions we can recommend, their websites stand on their own. If you can imagine these websites to be like a forest of individual tree’s each competing for natures resources… Plebeian Market is the mycelium that pulls them all together.
Who does it involve?
A small group of determined toxic remnant plebs: Chiefmonkey, BitcoinBekka, Ibz and LuisMiguel
What made you decide to start this project?
A realization that we need to start building society 2.0 and that it isn't going to build itself.
How does this service/product add value to the bitcoin space?
This is not for sale… we are aiming for this to be community owned and self sufficient while providing income generation and funding support for other open source projects in the bitcoin ecosystem.
Why are you building on bitcoin versus on a shitcoin or own shitcoin?
Because I have a soul and a modicum of intelligence and there is no second best.
What has been your biggest challenges building on bitcoin?
The bear market is tough when you’re funding things yourself… your money only goes 1/3 of the way you planned! And encouraging plebs to spend sats in a bear market can be quite challenging as well.
Where can people learn more about this?
or Twitter @plebeianmarket and join our telegram group at t.me/PlebeianMarket
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