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Thank you for the elaborate explanation. I don't understand the need for the negotiation process, but I will read deeper later.

IMO, finding a way to have as much of the logic reside in the Nostr protocol in the form of a data scheme laid over events and profiles is vital.

This will allow the use case you described and many other use cases to run over the data and strengthen each other, like what is happening with the current social media use cases of the Nostr protocol.

These are roughly the changes I think are required at the protocol level to enable this:

In short:

Adding a Product type Nostr event that describes a tradable product.

Adding skills as a possible property list of a user profile.

Adding Rating type Nostr event that rates a product or a skill.

In longer form:

Products

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Product Event

- High-level type of product - Good, Service, ...

- [categorie1, categorie2, categorie3, ...] categories the products fits into. For an apple, this may be ['food', 'fruit', 'ready to eat food', ...]

- ID: Unique Pubkey Id of this product

- Description in text

- Description media - image or video

- Price value

- Unit of account that the price quotes - Bitcoin, Dollar, ....

- Purchasing process URL. Calling this with the product ID redirects to a purchasing page.

Social rating

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Rating event

- Rating value

- Rating range [min max]

- [Skill: skill that is being rated, Profile ID: Profile to which this rating applies]

- Item id: the item that is being rated.

- Rater ID. The ID of the user who gives the rate

- Commen

Division of labor

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Add the to set_metadata event. Note that this is only for a user who is a seller of goods or products.

- [skill2, skill2, ] skills that the user proclaims. Skill may be in the service category (marketer, developer) or in the product supplier category (cloths store, electronic device store,... ). Profile skills may be rated by other users who will send rate events

- [product1, product2, produ3] - Ids of products supplied by the use

You're most welcome and thank you for your explanation as well. It all makes sense to me, and is in line with the overall vision of the project.

Additionally: The KEY aspect of the project is to enable people to both give things away they do not need, and trade things they no longer need with others, for things the other person has, that they want. This defines the trade aspect.

The barter aspect is the other KEY aspect, and is for doing things like user1 has potatos growing in garden, and wants to get piano lessons. user2 just so happens to want potatos, and can give piano lessons. They talk, and negotiate 4lbs of potatos per week, for 3 (1) hour piano lessons.

the barter aspect mentioned immediately above, is what defines the site and makes it different than any other market place i've seen on the web, to date. as far as i know, the combination of barter aspect, free / trade aspect, AND marketplace with either dollars or crypto/lightning... has never to this date, been done before.

This is what makes it exciting though, the combination of these things, can create a very scalable and powerful thing for people that I feel is lacking right now.

Additionally I agree that the underlying backbone of the thing can strengthen the overall design therein that it must be robust, and agile to the above scenarios as well, to be the most effective and thus a truly useful offering.

There are many people who have lots of skills, but don't have money, and many people who have lots of money but don't have skills. This site is meant to bridge that divide, and leave room for the inbetween use cases to flourish and create a better world through this type of cross vertical, flexible cooperation.

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Thank you. I understand the negotiation part now.

I have to go to sleep (Israel time) and will not be online in the next couple of days, but I would love to continue discussing this.

You're most kindly welcome. and Wonderful. Grateful to hear this.

Rest well, enjoy recharging and we will resume this in several days time, as it were.

I appreciate your passion and interest in this project.

Shabua tov, Ofer. 🙂