It was always sad to see the distributed currency Bitcoin be used in a centralized manner (e.g. SilkRoad &amp; MtGox).  Satoshi Nakamoto said, &quot;Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own&quot;.  But using these centralized exchanges prevents a fully p2p ecosystem.<p>Bitcoin provided trusted p2p money and money transactions.  But needs to be complimented with trusted p2p reputation and transactions of goods&#x2F;services.<p>Such a distributed marketplace was talked about in the early days of the bitcoin forum, and I remember OpenBazaar comming about after the seizure of silkroad.  I&#x27;m glad their github repo is active.<p>Sorry I don&#x27;t have any conversation to contribute specifically to this article, as I haven&#x27;t fully grooked the details of this yet, but thought I would write the first comment here.