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by stevenleeg 2742 days ago
Hey, your product looks super cool but I’m a bit stumped as to why you’re trying to force a token into it. It looks like it’s a simple payments token, which doesn’t usually turn out to be a great idea if you look at the remnants of blockchain projects that did the same in 2018.

Is this just a way to fundraise or do you have other ideas to make your product ‘decentralized’ aside from using a cryptocurrency?

For the record, everything else about the product looks amazing and I’m really excited to see an open and privacy conscience alternative in this space :)

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Hi! Thanks! We are not so much forcing the token as realizing it is a technology which can answer some needs:

- it allows to build a really decentralized marketplace - it allows people to not share what are the apps they are buying, so to keep this private

Have you found that your users really want a decentralized marketplace vs what the one you've built already (which I think is really good!)? Additionally, remember that all transactions on ETH are public, so if anything transactions would be less private than if you were to contain them to a normal web2 marketplace.