We are creating new possibilities for the internet.

Someone just approached us with this question for the Nth time:

“Just wondering, with no fees, how are you guys compensated for all this

work??”

The amount of wealth that will be transfered between millions of people via OpenBazaar will create tremendous possibilities for businesses around the OpenBazaar ecosystem.

Being part of the project now, will mean being an authority on the technology in the future.

Some of us will then start creating propietary solutions to solve hard problems around it, I can think of many already tech/business around Search, Inventory Management, Accounting, Security, Shipping Services, Logistic services, Support, Guilds of Professional Arbiters and Notaries, plugins for existing ecommerce websites, consulting for stores of all kinds to be part of OpenBazaar.

When you can say that you are one of the authors of the technology, you will be more credible and more wanted for multimillion dollar integration projects. When a big multinational corporation decides that they can’t afford not to be part of the OpenBazaar network and they try to do it by themselves using the cannonical client, they’ll realize they’ll need to either have a team to code the integration in-house or go to experts that already have enterprise solutions for hosting thousands of nodes and tens of thousands of products, contracts and integrate with enterprise systems they may already have in place to handle customer satisfaction logistics.

There’s also the fact that some of us including myself, just by having the project exposed to the media on outlets like Wired Magazine has already resulted in multiple job offers from the likes of Facebook and several Bitcoin startups.

But most of all the compensation that I have for this “job” (which is quite fun and addictive) is the learning, the experience of working together with all these guys from all over the world, working on something that is getting tremendous attention worldwide, something people actually needs.

This experience would cost top dollar to learn in any university, I’m learning from a talented group of developers about other topics I never had a chance to work with in my regular work, for free… that beats any course I can think of.

Hope this gives you an idea of why it’s good to put time on these kinds of projects, changing the world for the better and enabling millions to sell things online without needing bank accounts, merchant accounts, credit cards, it’s just priceless, if we succeed it will be one hell of a legacy to leave behind.