Dark Net Markets Are Booming From Better Quality & Safety

Dark Net Markets (DNM) are growing bigger than ever, with the Economist reporting over $50 million USD in transactions flowing through these marketplaces. The publication used data collected from Gwern Branwen's dark web archive and broke down quite a bit of the behavior taking place in the Dark Net Market environment. https://news.bitcoin.com/dark-net-market-quality-safety/


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[49 Points] MDMangel:

Thanks. This was a great article. This is evidence that The War on Drugs can be won ladies and gentelmen, won by the people!!!! We stand on the frontlines of this war my fellow Marketeers. The markets stand as a testiment to all who witness them, that Free Markets and trade without government interferrence is not only possible, but thriving!!


[5 Points] Cosmic-CS:

That was a very good read, thank you OP.


[6 Points] gwern:

Previously: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/4suf74/dnms_in_the_economist/


[5 Points] weirdfishh:

It's gotta be way more than $50 million.


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[3 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

Except they're not really "booming" at all yet, are they? Try telling that to somebody trying to buy some MXE, mephedrone, or ketamine.

$50 million? Everybody do a meth_9000 laugh at that figure! I bet that wouldn't even pay for all the houses on your street.

The global drug trade, if it was a country, would have the second-largest GDP. It could buy most countries with change that it found down the back of it's sofa, not just your street.

We all know that this is the safest, most-convenient, and best way to trade drugs. The best way of doing something always wins eventually. Inevitable change is called "progress".

Its YOUR fault that the DNMs are so small, barely outpacing the cops, because you are trying to keep them secret. History never looks favorably at people who stand in the way of progress - it leaves them behind, writes them out of the picture.

Small-minded people think the DNM scene was perfect when they were told about it, then "all these newbs who don't know what they're doing OPSEC-wise spoiled it".

It wasn't perfect, it was shit. Hip hop is a science now, and an industry. The DNMs are at the Sugarhill Gang, Run DMC stage. No progress has been made since Ross was arrested. If Americans had their way, marketplaces would still be exit scamming every 5 weeks because they'd just let them.

Its so small, even the mafia hasn't bothered to take over US darknet vending yet. Its another half-finished American invention that they got bored with, like Rock & Roll, now you've got this ball in a cup. WEEEEEE look at it go! But the ball is tied to the cup with a string.

That's great, you go and sit in the corner and wait for the mafia to organize it, we've got some global trade to do with China again and as usual, Hong kong is the half-Chinese, half-British key, with tunnels between it and the Chinese mainland that every drug gang digs and fights over. Send some MXE through, and divert some of that ephedrine from Mexico to Britain so I can quadruple your profits on it, please.

Nice one, thanks. You won't regret it.

The only thing consistently better on DNMs is coke. Maybe weed, which the US excels at but isn't really bothering to export to where profits are higher.

The UK buys a higher percentage of its drugs online than any other country, which started with mephedrone. We are a densely populated country with next-day post.

In the US, DNMs will be a wholesale medium, because nobody wants to wait 3 days for drugs. Many American DNM users are clever local dealers, while the vendors are a bit stupid. In the UK, the half-wits are the local dealers.

Lets not pat ourselves on the back for our abject failure.

Oh, and $50 million? A week maybe. Not a year.


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[1 Points] tailsuser2:

Please tell me where I can buy gift cards.


[1 Points] DextroShade:

I came to the DNMs for the drugs, stayed for the revolution.


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