now we all know that giant freelance markets like Upwork won't let us through without taking over anonymity and privacy from us, but why do they do that? to keep frauds away? to make it easier for them to stop scams and dispute's ? or just simply track us? well, they could, but in doing so they are taking away our privacy and in my case revealing my face on my avatar, that just sucks. so why are people still using such privacy hungry platforms and still revealing everything about them, well they do that to feed themselves and some don't even care I guess, but unlike Facebook and other giant's Upwork doesn't collect that sensitive information, and disclose it to third parties! (well it might disclose it, but I'm trying to say that the information might not be that sensitive)
well we can't turn the world into utopia can we, but we can keep our privacy if we promote and use these other decentralized alternatives that could be just what we want.
The reinproject
reinproject is a decentralized marketplace launched in the beginning of 2016, for freelancer's where they could find work, and be paid in cryptocurrencies, the service uses multisig escrowing, ECDSA, micro hosting servers and the blockchain technology the customers and freelancer's interact freely on this market, but to solve dispute's they have mediator's. one odd thing about rein is that it is accessed from its command line interface, the rein repository
Taskhive
task hive is not yet released and is still in beta, as you can see the code base here
task hive is free, you only pay for your work, and get paid for it, it has a strong system of reputation and escrow, making it easy for you to concentrate on work, it will connect you to all types of workers from all around the world covering about all possible areas of expertise.
but using established markets has more benefits to it, and makes it possible for you to easily find what you're looking for as they've been doing it for years and market's like Upwork have become like a treasure trove of leads for experienced freelancers and inexperienced alike, so let's see what happens.
some link's if you want to know where a tech fool like me thought about writing about such a topic without any experience or whatsoever,
reinproject.org
https://taskhive.io/
build on-demand service places
https://www.fatbit.com/fab/build-on-demand-services-marketplace-with-advanced-website-features/
a review of the decentralized freelance market
http://betbybitcoin.com/review-decentralized-freelance-market-rein/