What did people use before Bitcoin?
[16 Points] None:
[10 Points] None:
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[8 Points] BlueShadesTM:
SilkRoad wasn't even up before BTC was made I think.
[5 Points] airyeezy91:
Upvotes and Bebo love.
[5 Points] SR--throwaway:
iTunes gift cards, minute cards.
Actually all jokes aside I just bought acid last Saturday with chicken wings. I had 30 delivered to my friends and he said he'd give me a tab for half of them. We laughed about that all night.
[3 Points] corporate_complicity:
I've witnessed people buy small amounts of weed for Taco Bell delivery. Barter system, yo.
[2 Points] crashdo:
A guy wanted to buy drugs from me with a check once. True story.
It was actually a photocopy of a check and he was trying to use a highlighter to write it out.
I only killed him a little bit.
[2 Points] None:
USPS money orders to clearnet vendors.
[2 Points] None:
Someone once paid me with pizza hut once. He worked there and had acces to these 10$ coupons you could redeem for anything on the menu at Pizza hut. Ate pizza for like a week out of some bud and molly.
[1 Points] queryox1:
Basically all things that were traceable, which led to the downfall of the market e that was created before silk road on TOR. They took Western Union, Pecunix, PayPal, I-Golder, and in cash.
Farmers Market on TOR, the idea was there.. its just Ross added bitcoin for anonymity .
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/04/23/farmers-market-tor-narcotics/
[1 Points] fuckaye:
my mates used some private site similar to budmail, you sent cash in the post. Though they noticed every fourth order went "missing"...
[1 Points] sharpshooter789:
There was the farmers market. They accepted PayPal and western union I think.
One could still probably use western union or money gram since they don't require ID for deposits <$1,000.
[1 Points] 863320130415802:
I bought LSD and MDMA from Holland with Moneygram,
[1 Points] None:
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[1 Points] jodieUNsweetined:
Qubitcoin
[1 Points] 13tom13:
Not sure but for a while some vendors accepted resturant credit from like olive garden (i assume they could sell it for the same price), anonymous cash cards or like itunes cards stuff like that that you could top money up onto
[1 Points] aalewis____:
liberty reserve
[1 Points] None:
Hopes and dreams.
Elephant toenails.
People used to buy drugs with cash or blowjobs before btc, source Wikipedia