Technically, the Syscoin QT wallet was the original concept of the marketplace, first via console command and then as a GUI directly on Syscoin QT 2.0.

QT, however, is not easy to work with and adding much needed improvements is not only time-consuming but still really ugly and not intuitive or even user-friendly.

This and for a few other obvious reasons, is why we went the web-dev route by first designing an API for developers that harnesses the functions of the blockchain and the using that same API to build Blockmarket as a web-app.

The concept of adding Syscoin masternodes creates a decentralized point-of-entry to Blockmarket web, so yes, one node can be shut down, but not the entire network.

We are not at all focused on black market or illegal items, in fact, we will moderate anything we come across (or is reported) that is illegal in our country (Canada). Although illicit goods are a very large market, in comparison to our target market (everyone else) it is a very small share of the pie.

Yes I've heard QT is a dog to code. There could be vulnerabilities in the web->daemon interface, especially if it relies on RPC, but other than that I think that's a sound development choice.

There are plenty of competitors in the black market space, so the mainstream is a good target. Privacy features are less important and legitimate disintermediated commerce is the goal. One drawback would be lobbying by corporations to criminalize and/or overburden the distributed marketplace business model with regulations, simply to extinguish competition in ecommerce markets. I guess we'll see how this all plays out over the next few years...

Hey that's great thank you so much for testing it out and providing us with your feedback.

-For your first point, that is being worked on so that it is more evident it is syncing, this has been one of the most brought up issues and we certainly will make it right. Keep in mind though, our next version Blockmarket Web will allow you login without the need of software and will not require syncing as the nodes will all already be synced.

-Do you mind creating an issue in Github for this? It is very easy to create an account in github and providing step-by-step instructions will allow us to target the issue https://github.com/syscoin/blockmarket-desktop-public/issues

-This also sounds like a syncing issue, if you can open an issue in Github as well it would be appreciated.

Thanks again for your assistance in helping us make decentralization history

Good progress for Syscoin. Keep those features for 2018 being checked. Syscoin could be once of those crypto coins to watch our and that will surprise you for 2018.

why are the masternode boxes checked if they aren't live yet? is there a planned release date?