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[–]twigburst 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fucking snitches... Who gives a shit about what she was doing...

[–]wannabejourno 1 point2 points  (6 children)

While I'm far, far behind the level of studying you've completed on the markets, my impression is that a lot of the arrests from SR1 or the markets in general are still unknown. Given the charges in the cases you've listed, it seems like the people that got busted are in serious enough shit that they either A. didn't get to tell their tale before custody, or B. aren't telling it for personal security reasons.

It seems statistically far more likely that busted SR users wouldn't have the chance to go public, at least to me. I defer to your thinking on this, so - agree/disagree?

Also - Gwern OPs are the best OPs.

[–]sharpshooter789 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I think the USPS releases arrests statistics. Of course not all the arrests will be SR. But you'll see how many arrests they make.

[–]sharpshooter789 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I realize that. It may not be useful for determining SR arrests, but still has some value for SR users. It provides a glimpse at the effectiveness of the USPSs ability to intercept packages.

[–]wannabejourno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right - I figured there could be at least some rudimentary estimate one could make by taking known SR arrest #s, the total number of estimated SR users, the attrition of vendors, and general USPS arrest figures.

However, if Gwern hasn't done it already it likely is pointlessly inaccurate. There was a lot of interesting info in the Arvix.org study on SR1 during what I interpret as its heyday.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7139 is the link...it's pretty interesting.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We dont know about them because they dont matter. When someone gets busted because of silkroad, then ill be interested in the story. When a street dealer who happens to use silkroad gets ratted on by their IRL customer, thats a story that doesnt even belong here.

[–]duhgrateone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i mean to be fair. she was street level dealing and got caught the old fashioned way. it just so happens her "plug" was silkroad.

[–]GetyaBitcoin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1DelFsnUSM Emails with the informant read out loud, no mention of silk road tho

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