The home of ecommerce and online selling. Our discord server is dedicated to selling on eBay, Amazon, Etsy and other marketplaces online. To join our discord community of online sellers click here.

Homebase for online sellers and ecommerce store owners

Discord provides an incredible platform for communities to discuss their passions. We want to gather anyone who sells online to discuss news, advancements, tactics, and strategy to increase your online business.

Ecommerce strategy master group

This discord group serves the purpose of bringing together a mastermind group of ecommerce sellers. If you are interested in joining our conversations on how to grow your online store you should join our discord server to receive tips from people making a full time living selling items online. We want to serve as home base for anyone selling on large platforms such as eBay, Amazon, and Etsy.

The goal of this group

The end goal of our ecommerce mastermind group is to bring together a group of people who are passionate about selling online. We want to share knowledge with one another about the tactics, tricks, and tools it takes to crush any online marketplace.

The fundamentals and landscape of selling online are forever changing. Having a focused chat of people who are also extremely serious about making an income online will allow you to learn, and communicate with your peers.

Building lasting relationships with other online sellers will help you grow your business. You will be held more accountable and learn faster than ever by communicating within our discord server.

A discord server for eBay sellers

Ebay sellers can rejoice. Over the past few years, the community has been worried about the decline in sales in the platform. eBay can seem like a wild west of selling online. It seems like you can sell anything, but you are never sure what to buy in order to sell on ebay. eBay is an interesting beast and almost any form of ecommerce business can be viable on ebay.

A discord server for Amazon sellers

Selling on Amazon is what peaked most new people’s interest in online selling. Amazon FBA changed the game for the average joe. Amazon fba sparked the entire passive income seller movement online. Coining the term private label, or white labeling. Amazon is by far the largest online marketplace. The amount of value found in our group for Amazon sellers looking to increase their margin is incredible.

A discord server for Etsy sellers

From crafting your first items on etsy to selling out. Our group is looking for etsy sellers that love what they do and are looking to increase their business. Between Amazon, eBay, and Etsy, Etsy is the smallest but the most passionate group of sellers. Just because Etsy is the smallest does not mean you can’t run a very large business and be financially free on it.

A discord server for Shopify sellers

The beauty of shopify is the opportunity of owning your own brand and storefront. Shopify is the most advanced platform to launch a business on. In our discord we are building a community of shopify sellers that are sharing all sorts of information on how they are killing it in their niche.

The community for marketplace sellers

We are working on what we think is the best marketplace online. We have zero fees for our sellers and are focusing on what sellers want. We think the fees that you suffer to do business online can be avoided by building a next generation marketplace on top of a blockchain.

I think that the joining forces with one another will take our businesses to the next level. If you want to share something with a dedicated group of online sellers this is the place to do it.

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Redefining the online art seller

Junktion is aiming to become the go-to platform for artists as well as art collectors to sell their products on. Our marketplace differs from eBay, Amazon, and Etsy. By using cryptocurrencies to facilitate transactions, Junktion offers sellers access to an untapped market with loads of potential, as well as the cheapest fees of any online marketplace because of our smart contracts and cryptocurrency integrations.

Some of the immediate benefits of using this platform include zero fees for sellers, no sales taxes, and the ability to track the life of an item long after its been sold. You can sign up here if that sounds interesting to you. Or talk to the people creating this marketplace.

Another extremely valuable feature is that Junktion lowers the barriers of entry into the cryptocurrency market in general. Buying cryptocurrency can be an intimidating, annoying process. By selling your art and other goods on Junktion in exchange for cryptocurrency, you are able to enter into the market without much hassle, all while not having to pay marketplace fees when selling online.

Who Can This Help?

There is a large online community of artists and art enthusiasts alike who collect, buy, and sell pieces of art. Traditional avenues of exchange include eCommerce giants like eBay, Amazon, and Etsy as well as some lesser known niche sites like ExpressoBeans.com.

The problem with these more traditional avenues is either high fees incurred by sellers and/or an unreliable or unknown party to transact with. Junktion solves both of these problems by eliminating seller fees altogether and implementing smart contract functionality via the Ethereum Blockchain. Transactions are safe, secure, and best of all free for sellers. Buyers can feel safe knowing that their funds are safe with our built in escrow system.

Imagine pocketing that 10 to 15 percent that gets taken from every sale you make on these other platforms. If you are an artist trying to make a living or simply a collector trying to make some extra spending money, that extra money can go a long way. Junktion will instantly increase the margin you make on each sale.

As an example, gig posters (concert posters) and movie prints by famous artists like Chuck Sperry, EMEK, and others, often fetch hundreds and sometimes every thousands of dollars on the market. If you happen to have one of these prints, you could potentially sell it for a lot of money. What are your options?

You could sell the print on eBay. Let’s say you want to sell a rare Chuck Sperry print for around $5000. After eBay and Paypal take their cut, you’re out over $500! That is a lot of money. Selling that same print on Junktion in exchange for cryptocurrency allows you to keep that $500 and put it right into your own pocket or you could take that $500 and reinvest it into some more art prints.

How about Etsy or Amazon? You run into the same problems there with high seller fees and Amazon even charges you a monthly subscription fee to sell on their platform!

What about a smaller niche site like ExpressoBeans.com? This site works for eliminating some of the fees, but typically you will still have to deal with Paypal fees. And what about your buyer? Can you trust them? Do you know who they are? Most likely not.

It’s not uncommon for sellers to have to deal with nightmare scenarios where the buyer tries to cancel the Paypal transaction or claim they never received the product. There simply are not enough mechanisms in place to ensure a fair transaction for both parties. Smart contracts on the blockchain solve this problem.

Besides, now that there is a marketplace free of sellers fees to sell your art on why would you go back to selling your art in other places. If you are interested in selling your art online without paying fees sign up here

Never Lose Touch With Your Favorite Pieces

Artists and collectors tend to develop attachments to pieces of art that they own. Sometimes its hard to say goodbye when selling an item and once its gone, it’s gone, and you really don’t get a chance to see where it goes or when it changes hands again. Did the person you sold it to turn around and sell it for more a week later? Do they still have it? What does it look like now?

With Junktion’s smart contract functionality, you’ll be able to see the answers to all these questions. It’s a cool feature to be able to see where an item ends up over it’s lifetime. All of this data and information is contained in the blockchain and viewable for anyone to see.

Maybe you sold a piece that has traveled the world, changing hands several times or maybe you sold it to someone who will keep it and cherish it forever. It’s nice to be able to “check-in” and see where it ends up, especially if you created the piece yourself.

Sales Proceeds: Capital OR Investment

People tend to look at art as an investment. Valuable pieces increase in value over time. When you are ready to move on and sell them. If the piece of art increases at 10% a year, other online marketplaces are taking away years worth of appreciation.

With Junktion, your sales proceeds can instantly become an investment. Cryptocurrency is a fast growing investment vehicle with potentially trillions of dollars expected to pour into the space in the coming years.

You now have the option to convert your feeless sales proceeds into capital or keep it as an investment if you believe in the cryptocurrency’s future. Where else do you have that option? Junktion offers the most unique, seller-friendly solution to the problems small, online ecommerce people face when dealing with the bigger platforms.

If you are not a fan of cryptocurrency we off a simple solution that allows you to hold a essentially a cryptocurrency version of a USD. This or the ETH you hold can be sold at market price instantly.

A key part of our online marketplace is to let the sellers do what they want with the funds. We recommend using something like Metamask in order to hold the funds.

Selling Art on Junktion Just Makes Sense

Art is a creative pursuit. Why not be a part of a creative and intelligent solution to the problems sellers face today?

Junktion has many unique features and perks compared to traditional online marketplaces. eBay, Amazon, Etsy and other online marketplaces do not offer item tracking. Our marketplace wants to cater to creators and allow them to track individuals pieces.

Zero fees, no need to deal with sales taxes and regulations, smart contract functionality and a unique opportunity to enter the blockchain and cryptocurrency space with minimal risk. What’s not to love? If you have any questions or just want to talk to the people responsible for making this please join our discord.

Junktion gives the power back to the sellers in the most creative and intelligent way in the marketplace right now, join the revolution.  

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What can cryptocurrency do right now

A good practical use for cryptocurrency is a transfer of value, like a traditional currency. Every blockchain has different network fees. Depending on the congestion of these networks they are often far less than credit card processing fees, or some type of 3rd party escrow service like paypal.

We are focussing on a real use case for cryptocurrency because we firmly believe cryptocurrency has the ability to give a lot back to the average person. We are building a zero fee marketplace for sellers. The only fees the seller will have to pay our network fees in our cryptocurrency version of ebay. If you have any questions about what we are building feel free to ask them in our discord. We are also taking coin requests. If you would like to sell your items for a certain coin please tell us that coin in our discord.

We want to build a platform for our highest priority customer, sellers. If you have questions or want to see certain features please communicate with us in our discord.

A real use case will drive cryptocurrency transactions through the roof

We are building a series of tools on our platform that will fundamentally change how ecommerce will work. Building a cryptocurrency marketplace for your goods avoids a lot of fees for the sellers so that they can build a better business for themselves. Such as buyers do not need to pay taxes, no credit card fees, no chargebacks, this all equates to more margin for the average online seller. You can sign up to sell on our platform here.

There are other projects that are building better tools, token models, and use cases that will allow the future of cryptocurrency to flourish far beyond what we once saw in the high q4 season of 2017.

If you only care about the price

If you only care about the price and do not care about all of the incredible projects being built around the entire space you are buying cryptocurrency for the wrong reasons in my honest opinion. In order to drive the price of any of these volatile digital currencies, you have to introduce money into them and this can be done. For a number of reasons, but the most practical would be to find a real use case.

Creating products are vital to cryptocurrency adoption

Similar to code, cryptocurrency has the ability to build anything monetary and is only limited by your imagination. After the mainstream attention Bitcoin and Ethereum received in 2017 we enter a pivotal point in the market. This is a phase where the people with the right intent will succeed. The people with the best product and user experience will not be affected by the tremendous swings the market might have.

For example, we feel that our marketplace will be the most incredible place to sell your items online because we are utilizing the technology in the Ethereum blockchain. Our business is what we are calling price proof.

Price proof cryptocurrency models

A term that we are calling price proof is a cryptocurrency related company that works unrelated to the price of cryptocurrency. For example, bitcoin loan companies are going to be very hard to scale because of the swings in the market. This model could work, but it will be difficult to scale given how volatile and speculative these digital assets are.

Most of the companies that have a real use case or cryptocurrency are price proof business models that are unaffected by the price of their coin or any other crytpocuurency.

Without people using crypto products

While this is not entirely true, it is one of the more prominent issues in price. Volume and transactions are a key indicator that a certain coin is progressing rapidly. At the end of the day cryptocurrency is a grassroots movement. There are a ton of incredible projects that need your support. They need feedback, and customer loyalty. If you are a fan of cryptocurrency and want to see it succeed you should try to support projects that are building dapps, crypto advancements, development tools and supporting a bullish outlook on the entire industry.

Volume is a clear indicator of what is happening in the market, and is one metric used in technical analysis regarding the price of any asset. If people are constantly using crypto related services, and transferring their hard earned fiat dollars for crypto this will almost certainly dive the price up even if the person decides to sell right after. If a product is providing a real use case for crypto the entire community should actually use and vouch for it, instead of just purchasing the cryptocurrency and holding. There are a ton of projects that are providing a real use case for cryptocurrency.

These are a few of the cryptocurrency projects that I feel have a real use case within the cryptocurrency space:

Hexel – A Y Combinator backed company with the wild idea to tokenize the world.
Golem – Building a rendering supercomputer.
Brave – Building an incredible browser that saves money on advertisements.
Steemit – Creating a social network that pays for your content.

I am missing a ton of projects that are well suited and will positively affect the entire space, but for now these are the ones that jump out at me. Drop by our discord if you have a cool project you would like to share: Link to discord

These better suited for blockchain type businesses keep popping up. They need customers in order for them to stay around. If something looks interesting in the space please share it.

Disruption is only the tip of the iceberg

I am not sure if disruption is the best word to describe some of the industries that will be affected by blockchain technology. Personally, I think a lot of consumer-related industries will not exist in a few years largely due to smart contracts. Ultimately the best user experience will win no matter the industry. Take a look at the video industry as a whole. In the beginning, there was a ton of mom and pop shops until blockbuster came around and dominated the industry introducing a massive supply chain that disrupted the entire industry.

Once blockbuster solidified itself as the video renting giant a new beast was born, Netflix. Netflix is undoubtedly the reason why the once king blockbuster is no more. Their business model could no longer compete with the changing technology.

Blockchain technology is going to bring many many Netflix like businesses that will not only disrupt but will also completely destroy traditional kings and seemingly known monopolies in all different areas of business. Who cares about the price of individual coins when all we should be caring about is adoption.
Stop caring about the price, worry about adoption

The advancements happening in the blockchain space are shaping to become the type of technology we need in order for everyone to catch up to the big guys. This financial revolution is designed to take away from the bigger industries and giants in the financial industry. Even if you use the United States Dollar you are taxed with every transaction. When you use cryptocurrency you avoid paying fees and taxes on every transaction. Goodbye to the 2% of fees that sellers have to pay both online and offline.

When you worry about the price you worry about the wrong things, adoption of cryptocurrency is what we should be worrying about. The long-term future is in adoption. The long-term future that we all want as cryptocurrency enthusiasts will not exist if we do not use or reward the services built on it.

Adoption of cryptocurrency

Adoption of cryptocurrency will come from the real world use cases innovative people can come up with. Web3 and blockchain technology is only limited by the imagination of the person engineering the product. If you are looking to create an innovative product in cryptocurrency space I would recommend doing so sooner rather than later. There is a ton of innovation happening around the space. It is only a matter of time that the people with a real use case.

If you would like to be one of the first to sign up for our real cryptocurrency use case please sign up here.

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Traditional e-commerce websites, like Amazon and Etsy, thrive on the backs of their sellers. Etsy charges up 5% per transaction in seller fees in addition to twenty cents just to list an item. Online retail behemoth, Amazon, charges a monthly subscription fee of $39.99/month in addition to their per item seller fee that varies greatly depending on what services you use. They can be upwards of 20%. For businesses and side hustlers alike, these fees consistently eat into profit margins and make scratching out any kind of meaningful income on these platforms more difficult than it needs to be.

Take for example, a small boutique clothing store who wants to sell t-shirts on Etsy. Their margins are most likely already razor thin. In fact, estimates put average profit margins on retail clothing somewhere between 4 and 13%. Adding another 5% in fees, or paying a monthly fee of $39.99 per month plus fees of upward to 20% when you use FBA. Hurting the seller on what is already a small profit and stifles a small businesses ability to succeed.

The problem with traditional e-commerce is that the small, third-party sellers do all the heavy lifting, while the platforms rake in millions of dollars in fees and subscriptions which eat away at the seller’s’ ability to make money and build a business for themselves. Do these platforms provide exposure and a big customer base to market products? Absolutely, and there is definitely value in that. But it’s not proportional. The relationship between e-commerce platforms and their sellers is out of balance.

Forra puts power in its sellers

The blockchain revolution is creating more and more opportunities for businesses and individuals to rebalance the scales between themselves and the big corporations that profit from their hard work, data, and contributions to networks that allow their platforms to succeed in the first place. If you would like to sell on our marketplace please sign up here. You are even welcome to tell us anything you would like and join in our constant conversation about our platform in our discord. We are building a selling platform and want people who are serious about building an online business to do so on top of us. We are the best place to sell online because we do not charge the sellers any fees for doing so. Using blockchain technology you don’t even have to pay credit card fees. 

E-commerce is one particular industry where the status quo is ripe for disruption as blockchain technology can revolutionize the way sellers interact with their buyers in the marketplace. As a decentralized application (DApp).

Using the Ethereum blockchain, Junktion will offer sellers completely secure, feeless transactions via Smart Contract Escrow functionality. Sellers will be able to track sold items for the entire life of the item and see exactly where it ends up and when it changes hands.

Junktion does not require subscription or listing fees, and we reward all transaction with our Scraps (SRC) token that will be used on our site as a way . The fees sellers will save using this service to sell their goods and merchandise will lead to a direct increase in profits without the need to increase their customer base and sell more goods. The same volume will yield more results thanks to feeless transactions.

Sellers are the lifeblood of e-commerce platforms. Their products and reputation are what drives traffic to these sites. Junktion understands and rewards that rather than charging these vital entities a fee for doing business.

Our coin will be rewarded with every transaction. You will be able to trade in your coins in for New items such laptops, and phones. Items that consumers actually want.

A Story Of The Younger Entrepreneur

A young entrepreneur decides to go into business as an online clothing business called Threads Co. She intends to sell high-end jeans and t-shirts for a younger, hip customer base. She puts together a business plan, files the necessary paperwork, acquires licenses to do business, she finds a material wholesaler and she starts producing branded t-shirts and jeans.

Based on her research, she knows she can buy in bulk and pay about $100 per pair of jeans and roughly $75 per t-shirt. She also figures with the right branding and marketing, she can sell the jeans at $110 and the t-shirts for $85.

She’s confident she knows what the market wants. People will buy her apparel, she just needs to get it in front of their faces. She could find a brick and mortar retail space somewhere, but that wouldn’t be efficient. Rent alone would be too high to make it worth it. She could also start her own website and e-store, but how would she compete with the thousands of others doing the same thing? How would she drive traffic there?

Another option would be to utilize services like Amazon and Etsy to get eyeballs on her product. She could open an etsy shop or subscribe to Amazon and use their deep customer pool to make a name for herself and her products.

Selling her products there she would make about $10 per pair of jeans (10% profit) and $10 per t-shirt (13% profit) before fees. On etsy, we would have to deduct $.20 for the listing and then an addition $3.85 to cover the seller’s fee on the pair of jeans. Leaving her with roughly $6 in profit. For the t-shirt, this fee structure reduces her profit to about $7.

Factoring in business taxes, shipping costs, Paypal and Credit Card processing fees, these profit margins will quickly approach zero or worse and make her business virtually unsustainable on these platforms. Meanwhile, these companies are making a steady stream of revenue from every sale she makes without having to do anything besides provide a pool of potential customers.

A new cryptocurrency marketplace like Etsy and Amazon emerges for the young entrepreneur

Junktion now exists as the new option for the young entrepreneur mentioned above. Junktion still provides sellers a pool of customers to which they can market their products, but it does not charge fees.

The simplest way for a business to increase profits is to reduce cost. It is always more expensive and more inefficient to try to sell more goods and/or create new customers. Junktion offers an easy way to cut costs for online retailers by cutting out transaction fees.

In the example above, if the business was selling the jeans and t-shirts on Junktion, they keep the $3-4 per item that normally would go to a platform like Etsy or Amazon where it belongs: in their pocket. This money can be used to expand the business by hiring new people, developing new products, and expanding marketing efforts.

The hard work of these sellers should be rewarded. They earned these profits and they deserve to keep them. Traditional e-commerce is out of whack. Junktion will return the power to the sellers with a decentralized marketplace that allows for feeless transactions on Ethereum Blockchain.

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Like eBay, Junktion shares in the mission to discover great “value and unique selection” for its customers. Junktion is building a cryptocurrency marketplace for your items that eBay sellers in particular will love.Hop in our discord  to tell us what features to build first, or to get your questions answered.  

 Junktion is the bridge between physical items and digital assets.

We are recruiting eBay sellers to sell on our platform.

We are recruiting people who wish to sell and list their items on our eBay like platform that is currently being developed. If you are some type of an online seller and sign up on this form you are eligible to earn some of our scraps tokens. The users who sign up now will be considered our beta users. We will heavily promote their accounts and do our best to make sure succeed on our platform. 

Our vision

Junktion is built by an ex eBay seller looking to build a better online marketplace. For sellers, by sellers.

We envision an open online marketplace where people can sell their items for any currency they wish, Fiat or crypto. A place where your items are loved, and treated as a treasure, because you want to see them make it out into another cycle of buying and selling. A circular economy where people can constantly trade in old items for new ones. A please where your things can call home.
We ultimately foresee every item somehow associated with blockchain technology and Junktion is leading the way. You will be able to find the exact item you sold years ago using the technology we are creating.

We foresee a more digital and open economy. To an outsider, our Ecommerce marketplace is a combination of ebay and cryptokitties. What we are building is the future of ecommerce. Our online marketplace will have blockchain rich futuristic features that online selling platforms such as eBay and Amazon couldn’t have dreamed of. We are willing to build exactly what consumers want and not what is best for us. That is why we are a zero fee online marketplace focussed on the users experience.

How we are using blockchain technology

Junktion is a company that is utilizing the technology in the Ethereum blockchain to enable a peer to peer ecommerce marketplace that will provide the best user experience for customers because we allow the items sold on our site to tell a story. Each and every item sold on site has a unique story associated to it. You and I might both own Iphones, but each is different. The same make and model is uniquely different because of the owners. We allow users to have the ability to track their items that they formally owned and have sold on our ebay like marketplace.

We want to create features that ebay sellers want on our platform. We care about your items and want to make sellers the most important part of our business. Join the conversation in our discord.

We plan on incorporating USD on our eBay like dapp, but also want to support the technology that we are using by accepting Ethereum. For a short time, Ethereum will be our main currency. We do have our own cryptocurrency that we will give to anyone who wants to be an early adopter. An early adopter is someone who is serious about selling online and will list a few or more items on our eBay like marketplace.

If you already sell on a platform such as Ebay, Amazon, or Etsy and are looking for another sales channel do not hesitate to sell on our marketplace or even selling your goods directly to us.

Junktion vs. Ebay

The future of selling is hands down Junktion. Sites like ebay that incorporate a blockchain twist are the future of online selling. We are building a home for people who are looking to make more money with their online store that is perhaps on a site like ebay.  We are developing incredible technology that will allow for users to have a better experience on both sides. There are two transactors in a marketplace. A buyer and a seller. Ebay heavily values the buyer in all transactions. Junktion will be focussing on sellers and building out our platform for sellers. We want to allow users to build their business on top of us as quickly as possible.

According to the United States, the backbone of an economy is small business. Not the people who buy from them. Why should it be backwards on online marketplaces like eBay and Amazon.

With the launch of this article, we are trying to organize our community of sellers in a public Junktion discord to discuss different issues, features, and to build a community around our open online marketplace. Filling out our form, and joining our discord will be the number one ways for online sellers to make their voice heard in the development process of a far superior ebay dapp.

What is a dapp

Ebay is what you would call a web app. It is an application used on the web. A dapp is a decentralized application. All this means is that it communicates with the Ethereum blockchain.

A different online marketplace

We plan to use Ethereum to allow users to track where the goods they are sending go. For example, It would be really neat to know that an item you are emotionally attached to and sold has lived another good life with another owner, until they sold it to another 5 years later. If this feature seems like something you would be interested in please sign up for our newsletter at the bottom of our site. We will go more into detail about it as development progresses.

Defining our marketplace dapp

Our marketplace dapp has a bright future because we understand that the backbone of an online marketplace is the sellers. Our online marketplace will focus on making sure that online store owners are able to succeed. We want to give people a platform to create a store, a brand, and a living. We want users to build their business on top of us and allow for the average person to successfully declutter, move on, and ultimately sell their items.

Sites Like Ebay

Sites like eBay pop up from time to time but the truth is none of them have half the amount of potential as Junktion. I say this because our site is built for you. The person who hustles online, a seller on these online marketplaces. The blockchain solves a lot of issues logistically, monetarily, and automation wise that other similar sites to eBay will never have. Only large organizations have access to the blockchain e-commerce solutions available right now. Blockchain solutions for online marketplaces are going to make a huge impact in the world and price of crypto. We are the blockchain website like eBay that is here to innovate e-commerce and change the way we think about items and the things we own.

Fee structure

EBay has a broken fee structure and very much so favors the buyer in all transactions. If you wanted to transfer the funds you have from eBay to buy crypto you would pay an insane amount of fees. It would look something like this.

eBay forces unneeded fees on the seller. That is a fundamental issue that Junktion is going to fix. Ebay bullies its platform users into multiple fees that they do not need and should get for free. Junktion will be a zero fee platform. The only fees people are going to be paying are the Ethereum gas fees for transactions.

Ebay charges sellers small fees for features that are free on Junktion

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and cryptocurrency marketplaces

A bitcoin marketplace is an eCommerce site that accepts bitcoin as a form of payment. We are not focussing on Bitcoin as our currency. Our main currencies, for now, are USD and Ethereum. A Bitcoin marketplace tends to have goals that align with decentralizing trade. That is not our goal. We want to create a fee free marketplace for entrepreneurs to build a business on top of.

There are other blockchain and bitcoin related e-commerce marketplace startups being created that are far less advantageous than Junktion. A lot of these projects are aiming to decentralize trade. That is something that Junktion wants to try and avoid. We want to be as compliant and user-friendly as possible. Creating a free online marketplace doesn’t require overthrowing governments. Decentralized marketplaces are a haven for fraud, illegal activity, and scams. We want no part in them. We are not drug dealers and will not have drugs or other objects that decentralized exchanges like. We are going to be focussing on compliance, transparency, and user experience. 

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One of the main reasons cryptocurrencies are not as successful as they are is because of the elephant in the room. This bully called Bitcoin is almost certainly required to purchase other cryptocurrency. This bully cripples the success of other projects because of its dependency. Junktion has a solution to the bitcoin trading pair problem.

This analogy is important to think about when you think about the bitcoin trading pair issue.

Think about going on a far trip somewhere in America. At some point you have to pay tolls. These tolls are a needed evil to get to new land. These tolls are like blockchain transaction fees. Each and every time you buy and sell you are forced to pay them. They are unavoidable.

Buying bitcoin and then purchasing altcoins with that is the old traditional way of purchasing bitcoin. There is now a much better solution for skipping these tolls and or fees.

Our Solution

Junktion.io allows users to trade their items for whatever cryptocurrency they wish. This avoids the whole toll of trading through bitcoin to obtain any altcoin. We save you on fees and provide you with a solution to the bitcoin trading pair by providing you with a legitimate alternative to earning cryptocurrency.

Nobody likes fees

Fees are one of the largest reasons why people do not own crypto. Forcing people to pay fees will only push adoption so far. There needs to be alternatives to buy bitcoin and all of the other cryptocurrency as well.

Going back to the tolls on a highway example. There isn’t a way for you to just skip over the toll payers without getting fined. If only you could fly over them and get directly to where you wanted to go. That would be nice.

Junktion is a way for people to obtain cryptocurrency without paying fees. In the example we have been using we built a flying car that has a road of its own.

Addressing and solving the bitcoin trading pair

Your item can be traded with any trading pair. This means that your item can be turned directly in to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Tron, Eos, Neo, Stellar, or any other common cryptocurrency pair. Every coin on Binance is accepted.

Our cryptocurrency marketplace dapp

The only intermediary in between your cryptocurrency is Junktion and the buyer/seller in our cryptocurrency marketplace dapp. We are in an early beta now that we are calling the pawn shop phase. As an mvp to get ready for our marketplace dapp we are purchasing items to be sold on it.

In the coming months, we will be rolling out new features. During this time Junktion will continue this pawn phase. We want to be the legitimate alternative to earning cryptocurrency and can use all the help we can get. We have plenty of job openings and ways to be involved Please leave your email on the site.

The Bitcoin trading issues will continue until there are serious alternatives to buying and selling cryptocurrency. Our crypto marketplace is going to focus on the following:

– Safe and easy to use
– Fast and speedy checkout
– Fair pricing
– Zero fees

A lot of cryptocurrency marketplace dapps and other companies trying to decentralize trade fail on a lot of different areas to make sense of the whole problem.

You can not fully decentralized trade

Do you even want to? Imagine guns and all of the black market boiling to the surface again. Another Silk road is not what we need for cryptocurrency. Junktion is not anything like that. We are a fun, unique shopping experience brought to you by the Ethereum blockchain.

Junktion is solving the bitcoin trading pair problem

Bitcoin dominance gives the rest of the altcoin market extreme coupling in price and most often bitcoin determines the entire market because of it market dominant market cap in the industry.

The flipping of bitcoin might actually come to fruition. Most of our customers support coins such as ETH, Stellar, Ripple, Litecoin, to name a few of the more popular choices. Bitcoins dominance will eventually come to an end once there are enough Ethereum dapps that carry the same void and more. For example, If you gather up all of the logical uses of bitcoin aqnd replaced them with other coins and apps on the ETH network. This might even be the best thing to solve the bitcoin trading pair and dominance issue.

Only the future will tell, We know that we are doing our part to help crypto as a whole.

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https://forra.io is the home to an alternative method to traditionally buying cryptocurrency.

Obtaining cryptocurrency without spending money

We created a service that turns your existing items into cryptocurrency by selling them to us or on our marketplace dapp that will be released in a few months.
We think that alternatives to traditionally buying cryptocurrency will make some of the largest impacts on adoption. People are scared to put their money into something that is so speculative.

Alternatives to buying cryptocurrency will help all of crypto

People work very hard for their fiat. Risking this currency certainty with a new speculative currency is a steep hurdle for most people to overcome.

Junktion is one of the few legitimate alternatives to earning cryptocurrency.

Junktion is a quantifiable way to earn cryptocurrency instead of buying it. Junktion is a black and white transaction. We buy your things for digital assets. Once the item is shipped to us we examine it and ultimately list it on our marketplace dapp that is currently being developed.

You introduce items into our ecosystem by selling them to us for the cryptocurrency of your choice, and we sell them back on our site. This create a circular economy where people can trade in old items for new ones.

You will earn Scraps token whenever you transact on our site. Meaning purchasing or selling an item. Learn more about scraps here.

The traditional method of buying cryptocurrency

When you are looking to introduce fiat currency into digital currency you run into a few bumps and pain points so we created a new alternative to buying cryptocurrency. A place where anyone can instantly transform their item into bitcoin or whatever cryptocurrency they wish.

There are no USD or fiat trading pairs for almost all cryptocurrency. There are mostly Bitcoin trading pairs. The purchasing and selling fees associated with transferring the coins happen on almost every exchange.

If you introduce fiat and buy bitcoin on one exchange it doesn’t mean that you can buy the particular coin you were looking for. This issue does not exist when you earn cryptocurrency with us.  

There is now a new way to obtain bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This new method involves selling your items for the cryptocurrency you want. The money will be paid directly to you. Without a middleman in between.

Alternatives to accumulate crypto will push adoption

For real adoption to take place we feel that services allowing “earning” or alternative methods to accumulating coins need to be in the marketplace.
At its roots, cryptocurrency is a grassroots movement. We need to have more people using it for it to be really worth anything. The real benefactor of Junktion is the everyday user.

We want to give users more cryptocurrency than they originally thought they were going to receive. In all transactions, people will be rewarded with some type of token. Exposing people to crypto is very important to us. To serve as the best alternative to buy cryptocurrency 

What we are

Junktion is a place that people can obtain cryptocurrency without spending money. We are a marketplace dapp that is meant for everyone to be the alternative to earning cryptocurrency. We want to make old things cool, spread adoption of crypto,  and change the way we think about our items.

Junktion has a few goals

Spread the adoption of cryptocurrency

The adoption of cryptocurrency will inevitably happen once a majority of people own the same type of cryptocurrency. We are helping facilitate this process by giving everyone the ability to sell their items for Ethereum, Bitcoin, Stellar, Vertcoin, Monero, Neo, Gas, Nano, Stratis, Ripple, Tron, Nem, Eos, Litecoin, Cardano, Zcash, and just about any other coin on Binance.

Thank you to Coin Telegraph for the image

Cryptocurrency ownership is less than 5%, at its peak in the world. Junktion wants to help that by giving people the crypto they want for the items they no longer want. We think that appealing to people who just have items for sale will help push adoption and give people a valid reason alternative to buying it. Often, the idea of wasting hard earned cash is something that is holding them from making a purchase.

Create an exciting selling environment

There are a lot of cryptocurrency buying alternatives, but only one best alternative to buying cryptocurrency. Junktion provides a smooth easy transaction with zero fees. We allow any us to come to our site and sell us their items as an alternative to buying cryptocurrency.

The best alternative to earning cryptocurrency

Selling your items directly for bitcoin or other cryptocurrency is a great alternative to buying it. When you buy an item it has some sort of cash value to it. Think about a video game or something similar.
You may pay $10 for the game and at one point play it all the time, but that time doesn’t last forever. You had hours and days of fun and got well worth your $10 worth.
There comes a time in every items lifetime with each unique owner that it reaches a tipping point. A point in every items life where the item sits. Those are typically the type of items you sell.

Junktion has a goal of becoming the bridge between physical items and digital assets. The technology we are creating will be revealed in the following months.

We are creating a dapp that allows users to sell their items for Ethereum. Think of eBay meets crypto kitties. We think this is achievable within 2 months.

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We are creating a cryptocurrency marketplace that allows our users to sell their physical items on the blockchain. Junktion.io is a circular economy with the goal of spreading the adoption of cryptocurrency.

Earning bitcoin using Junktions Marketplace

Right now, we are buying items in order to have them on our Dapp that should come out within 3 months. To check out our progress you should go to our site and leave your email somewhere on the site. Junktion.io

Cryptocurrency and in particular bitcoin is a digital asset that has taken the world by surprise. At the early stage of Bitcoin, it never caught the media’s attention. Today, digital assets have become the craze in the financial world. In fact, many people love digital assets more than their normal fiat currencies. Bitcoin is the first successful cryptocurrency publicly known and accepted. Over the years, bitcoin has proven to be the most reliable digit asset in the world of cryptocurrency. Are you pondering on how to sell your items for bitcoin? Reading this will show explain how and why selling your items for bitcoin is a good idea.

Why is Selling Your Items For Cryptocurrency A Good Idea?

Cryptocurrency is likely to fuel the new digital economy. that is inevitably coming closer and closer, Bitcoin is the king. Which new laws and regulations coming out all of the world,The future has never looked so bright bright for these new digital assets. Selling your items for cryptocurrencies means getting prepared to the economic operations of the future. Selling your stuff for bitcoin is a great way to start position in Bitcoin. Apart from getting prepared for the future economy. In the future, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency comes with other amazing benefits.

Benefits Earning Bitcoin By Selling Your Items Using Junktion:

1. These currencies cannot be reversed arbitrarily or counterfeited by the sender. This is because cryptocurrencies remain digital in nature and cannot be manipulated like credit card charge-backs. This is the encryption in them.

2. With cryptocurrencies, you will get an immediate settlement. To buy a real property, or items the process will involve or engage several third parties, payment of fees and delays. The cryptocurrency world remains decentralized, which makes it easy for anyone to execute transactions without a regulating body. Provided you have any digital asset in your wallet, the transaction is almost immediate. Junktion is needed in a circular economy to facilitate the process.

3. There is no identity theft in selling your items for bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. The system makes use of a push mechanism that enables you to send the actual amount to the receiver. In the case of credit cards, the process remains a pull system. This means that you are exposing your complete credit line to the merchant. Cryptocurrencies come with a huge level of security and protection for your money.

4. When you sell your items for bitcoin to Junktion you will also experience reduced fees. When exhibiting a cryptocurrency exchange, you will not get or pay a transaction fee. This is because the network will always compensate the miners. If you are engaged in other exchange platforms like credit cards or sales representations, there is every possibility to pay extra fees. After the entire transaction, you may discover paying more in service than anticipated. Selling your items for bitcoin directly to avoid the fees involved in buying bitcoin will help you keep more of your money and earn that little bit extra bitcoin you need to get ahead!

5. It is important to know that around 2.2 billion people across the planet does not access to some sort of local form of currency exchange. With cryptocurrency on the rise, these 2.2 billion people are likely to benefit from this new digital asset. In a nutshell, cryptocurrency is accessible to everyone without anybody in exception.

Is Obtaining Bitcoin This Way A Good Idea?

Selling on traditional platforms have a lot of fees associated with them.

This is where cryptocurrency gets funny, interesting and beneficial. Have you ever pondered on how to sell your physical goods for bitcoin? Well, if you have, then Junktion is the place for you to receive an instant offer in bitcoin for your items. It is important to know that bitcoin rises and falls. As of February 26th, 2018, bitcoin in worth 10,500 dollars. An very well could be on the rise soon again.

The truth is that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies remain the future of the globe’s economy. On this note, holding the coins and purchasing more will help to secure your financial future.

Junktion will help you unlock the value of your items in Bitcoin.

Selling Your Stuff For Bitcoin Is A Great Way To Get The Coin Without Spending Money:

For people who are scared of trying out cryptocurrencies with their real fiat currency, trading your personal items for bitcoin can help you. When you sell your personal items to obtain cryptocurrency, it allows you maintain your position in your fiat currency safety. If you are looking for one of the best ways to get bitcoin without losing your physical cash, then simply sell your items directly for the cryptocurrency of your choice. With Junktion all of this is possible.

The Price Of Your Items Fall While The Price Of Crypto Rises:

The price of your items will constantly fall. On average and item that is brand new is worth 50% less the moment you open or tag the tags off of it. As time goes on these used items lose even more value. Meanwhile, the exact opposite is true for bitcoin and most other cryptocurrency. In particular bitcoin is a deflationary currency in nature. The coin is designed to rise in value as opposed to the United states dollar which has new ones introduced constantly.

We are building an incredible dapp that allows anyone to have the ability turn their items in to not only bitcoin but the cryptocurrency of their choice.

Junktion.io

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• Spread adoption of cryptocurrency
• Become the alternative to traditionally buying cryptocurrency
• Create a circular economy
• Help recycle and clean up the world

Junktion has a lot of moving parts, but this will help you understand us a little bit better, and how we can connect you with the cryptocurrency of your choice.

Forra: The cryptocurrency marketplace for your items

In order to create a cryptocurrency marketplace for selling your items, we feel that we need to reinvent what a marketplace is to fit this digital revolution. Similar to how these digital currencies are inventing how we view traditional currency. Our cryptocurrency selling platform is designed for the average joe. We want to have everyone involved in creating our “library of things.” This ownership of items driven through blockchain technology. We think that that in order to create this marketplace it has to be a process of checking these items in and out like you would a library book. We can offer you a certain amount for your item now. Then when you come back to take your exact item back you have an opportunity to buy it back at a profit. For example, if you sell your item for x and all the sudden your coins are worth 2x you can buy the item and still keep the profit.

How do you sell on our cryptocurrency platform?

You can start the selling process by clicking here.

Our vision of a cryptocurrency marketplace

The vision we have for a cryptocurrency marketplace draws from what makes cryptocurrency popular to begin with. Decentralization, speed, ease of use, public ledger, and the ability to appreciate and reward users instead of solely the corporation building the service.

We see the future as a place that has a liquid price on items using digital currency. Meaning that you can immediately sell your items for cryptocurrency. Everything you own has a value tied to it. Currently, Junktion is building a liquidity service that will allow users to instantly turn their items into cryptocurrency. You can participate and sign up for our beta here.

Junktion will be a Dapp built on the Ethereum Blockchain

We think that connecting physical items and digital assets needs to be done on a blockchain. We want to associate all items with a unique token that is represented on the blockchain. We are building a solution that allows our users to earn cryptocurrency, and build a business on our platform.

How is Junktion helping spread the adoption of cryptocurrency?

Junktion is solving a fundamental issue most newcomers are having a hard time overcoming. People work really hard for their dollars. I understand why not everyone is ready to hand over their hard earned dollars for some new electronic cash they cannot hold.

People can earn their favortive kind of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Eos, Litecoin, Cardano, Dash, Stellar, Iota, Tron, Neo, Nano, Nem, and just about any other cryptocurrency listed on Binance.

Junktion is the alternative to buying cryptocurrency legitimately

Selling your items for a cool new cryptocurrency investment is a great low risk alternative to traditionally purchasing it. We feel that the alternatives to buying cryptocurrency are going to be some of the largest forces of adoption in the industry.

Recently, one of these types of startups sold for over a $100 million USD to Coinbase. This startup was Earn.com.

I think everyone in the space can agree that adoption is a good thing. We are looking for partners who want to share their coin or crypto collectable to our customers as well.

We want you to contribute to Junktion in any way possible. Even leaving your email on the site is a huge help to us. We have an affiliate program if you are interested in sharing our message as well.

Cryptocurrency partnerships

We see a partnership as a joint effort to get something done. We want to partner with companies that want to push adoption of their coin or project. Hundreds of people come to our site a day looking to earn some extra cryptocurrency. If you would like to hand your coin out or do some type of an alternative airdrop Junktion would be a perfect fit for you.

We can recommend your coin or cryptocurrency project by handing it out to our customers in exchange for filling out our form or selling something to us.

It might look something like this.


We would love to work with any coin/project big or small. If you would more people to be involved in your project exposing it to people who are looking to earn free currency is a great idea.

If you are interested in partnering with us and giving us some type of an asset to give away we would love to set something up and figure something out.

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A blockchain is a digitized, decentralized, public ledger of all cryptocurrency transactions. – From investopedia

The advancement in cryptocurrency is the most fascinating thing to happen to mankind since the internet. It is incredible to see some of the most brilliant minds take place in this blockchain revolution. The thing I love about crypto is everyone has their own lane, their path, a way that they are using crypto to change lives, or their own life.

Innovation and applications because of blockchain technology

Blockchain technology is fostering innovation and the number of new and incredible cryptocurrency projects is growing every day. Blockchain technology is the home of innovation because people are all finding their own lanes. There is no one telling you what is right and wrong. The wild west is back, and everyone has a different take on what it can do and how it can be implemented. Blockchain and cryptocurrency have real-world use cases. In some cases, they are far superior. These are a few interesting cryptocurrency projects being released in 2018.

This article is meant to show real world use cases of blockchain and cryptocurrency

All of the projects outlined here are valuable to the world in different ways. Some of them larger than others, but they all share a common goal. Spreading the adoption of cryptocurrency and the use of blockchain technology. Thes innovative blockchain and cryptocurrency projects are helping move the world toward a more decentralized and digital future fast than ever before

Useful Blockchain Related Projects

Junktion

Junktion is a real world use case for blockchain technology. That I happen to be the founder of. We are connecting physical items to digital assets using blockchain technology. What that means is, we are creating a dapp for your items, kinda like ebay. Right now, we are purchasing items so we have some for the marketplace launch, as well as to fund the project.

Trust wallet

Trust wallet Is incredible, its deep linking feature allows dapp to seamlessly hook up to a web browser. It is the go to solution for ethereum on mobile. I talked to the founder viktor about it here. He was recently funded by the Ethereum foundation and deserves a shoutout for carving his name into the crypto world in his own way.

Here is a conversation I had with the founder of trust wallet, Viktor

Parsec Frontiers

A prime example of finding your own avenue in cryptocurrency. Parsec Frontiers is creating a whole new world in a fun and exciting way. Cryptocurrency and games are a great way to get introduced to real world applications using blockchain technology. Parsec frontiers looks like one of the more advanced cryptocurrency game on the market. PArsec frontiers is the first real MMO on the blockchain.

Crypto Bit Games

Gaming and cryptocurrency are bound to be one of the driving forces of adoption. Blockchain technology has many uses in different facets of the virtual world and Crypto Bit Games wants to bring those stories to light. They are far ahead of the cryptocurrency shift want are the most authoritative news source in blockchain gaming.

Here is a conversation I had with the founder of Crypto Bit Games

Brainblocks

Hexel

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