Wired - The Silk Road's Dark-Web Dream Is Dead

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[25 Points] I_Am_Balthazar:

I can see how people are disillusioned by the current state of the markets, but it's a reality that we have to deal with. The dream isn't dead—these are necessary growing pains.


[13 Points] None:

We Libertarians have always stood for ending the war on drugs my friend. But greed will always over take personal liberty & freedom. 95% of the people who use the markets could care less about politics, they only care about when that pack will land!!!! Not gonna lie, I do care about the politics, but like everyone else, I am here for the ease of getting my drug of choice :-)


[10 Points] CocaineNose:

/u/GrandWizardsLair is mentioned in said article. I kind of agree with the article. I've honestly brought my DNM usage down to nothing. I use to get a couple packs weekly now I'm just tired of getting ripped off and markets shutting down.


[10 Points] madisonrebel:

And this is why we rely on Wired for accurate, informative writing.


[4 Points] EastCoastCollective:

Another article about gloom and doom. Every time one of these articles are published business grows. Unlike other posters I see no drop off in anything. To quote an old song "same as it ever was"


[3 Points] lightsnotlinesdrunk:

the wired shilling dream is still alive tho


[2 Points] 7SmallBottles:

And if they do, he warns that there may be so few multisignature transactions in the larger bitcoin economy that those next-gen drug deals would by highly visible on the blockchain, bitcoin’s public ledger of all the cryptocurrency’s movements.

No, not at all. But then Weaver did not exactly cover himself (?) in glory in that lawfare blog podcast.


[2 Points] Selectivescammer1:

It is getting tougher out there for vendors in particular, it's like the boom years are over. Still money to be made, but not like it was.


[2 Points] None:

Sad state of affairs that wired describes.


[2 Points] DopeDickDaddy:

Anybody else hope the general public will actually adopt the stance of this article? For us "initiated", this is good. False humility to the wind: I'd say the average user on this sub knows much more about OPSEC than some chump who came because he read about SR/Evo/Agora.

The more boring the DNMs seem to the average person, the better for us. Less stress and LE attention!


[1 Points] DankNetMarkets:

Oh cry me a river


[1 Points] Molly-Cyrus:

"Ya dead...ya whole family is dead" -Alpo Chino in the Dogfather


[1 Points] TheRealDealMarket:

Sad.


[1 Points] travelghost:

The dream is dead. Long live the dream!


[1 Points] None:

My darknet days are as booming as ever. Minus the fact that my countries economy has been digested into thai food diarrhea and flushed down a Mexican toilet. No $250 dollar sheets for this guy. But yeah the only times I ever get ripped off are when I place small orders from vendors I have no faith in anyway.


[1 Points] h1bana:

SR was shit compared to today, if SR went down in 2011 the dream would be dead but now markets can go down every month and people still dream.


[1 Points] rockytherack:

"That lack of evolution has made what was once a kind of sci-fi, online drug-buying wonderland into a collection of sketchy criminal sites that more than ever mirror the offline black markets they were meant to replace."

Yeah, except no one is getting murdered or kidnapped over this shit. Well, other than people being persecuted by the government.


[1 Points] isuggestyoupaymenow:

SOOOOOOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL


[1 Points] None:

There was so many big words in this article...


[0 Points] stormfayn:

Thanks for the article /u/damn-right, I mean Andy Greenberg. Now will you go away forever?