&gt;So if I understand correctly, OpenBazaar will be shifting costs from a central verification and fulfillment agency (Amazon, Visa, etc.) onto the buyers, sellers, and moderators of the market?<p>Yes. I try to explain this a bit more here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Bitcoin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3zv6sc&#x2F;sneak_peek_at_bitcoins_upcoming_killer_app_open&#x2F;cype35n" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Bitcoin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3zv6sc&#x2F;sneak_peek_...</a><p>&gt; Where is this cost made up for the buyers - will they see lower prices? Wouldn&#x27;t it be more expensive as moderators need to be compensated for their services?<p>Yes, we expect lower prices would be the main draw for buyers. The price shouldn&#x27;t be made up with moderation since moderators are only paid for services rendered - if there&#x27;s no dispute then they aren&#x27;t even aware of the transaction happening.<p>&gt;How can there be a consensus on a moderator if one party is always happy and one is always unhappy? Won&#x27;t the consensus always be 50&#x2F;50?<p>What Dr. Sanchez is trying to get at is the fact that text reviews from other parties (and explanations from the mod) will be publicly viewable. That would allow a prospect to review them and see which side they think is more legitimate.<p>We recognize that decentralized reputation systems are basically the holy grail of p2p systems and we don&#x27;t even pretend to be solving the problem, only giving users some information to make a more informed decision. I expect that many moderators will choose to publicly identify themselves and use their IRL reputation as well.<p>&gt;Last question: How will the leadership&#x2F;dev of OpenBazaar be structured in the future? Will you guys develop something similar to the Linux Foundation under a non-profit charter? Will the foundation enact a transaction fee to fund itself?<p>No transaction fees. It&#x27;s open source, so even if we wanted to do this it would likely fail because people could always fork it and remove the fee.<p>Right now many of the core devs are a part of a company called OB1 (I&#x27;m a co-founder). We received $1 million from Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz in order to lead development of the platform, push for network adoption, and then offer services to users on the network.