Darknet Markets - Will they exist years from today?

It seems just way too easy to order drugs in 2015.

I've learned this since day #1: All good things eventually come to an end.

What changes/enforcement/policy can the government honestly make to put an end to all of this? Mailing narcotics through mail isn't anything new, but TOR can surely be compromised?


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[9 Points] Theeconomist1:

It depends on how you define it. If DNM's, in your mind, are exclusively the model we have today - TOR, onion services, with largely centralized marketplaces - I'm sure this will change at some point.

In my mind, the DNMs are just an extension of any black market. Black markets have existed ever since governments limited the buying abilities of the people (or put taxes on those goods/services). I have no doubt that there will be a digital black market for drugs for a long, long time. The protocols will change, the infrastructure will change, but the markets adapt. Money is the most powerful motivator we have and as long as money is to made, there will be innovation.

Encryption usually doesn't last forever. It serves it immediate purpose. Technology make previous encryption methodologies obsolete. PGP has been secure for quite a long time, mainly due to the increases in key lengths and thus requires more and more computing power. Can it go on forever like that? Probably not. Big advances in parallel or quantum computing could very well make our current system insecure.

But the one thing I'm sure of - the markets will adapt. I have no doubts. I have thousands of years of history that assure me of this.


[4 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

All good things win.

The technology may be different, but it will still follow the basic model of anonymous browser, bitcoin (probably), escrow and feedback used by Silk Road.

I'm glad that Silk Road has gone, otherwise I would still be selling on it. Seven weeks was enough, cops were stealing my bitcoin before it was busted. Today I was reminded what a bunch of shitbags the forum mods were.

I think the drug delivery method will diversify and become methods.

The slow delivery times in the US will bring a new kind of vendor - the local drug stasher. If you get invited to a club lin Chicago at the last minute, you check "Chicago Drug Stasher"s listings, buy 10 MDMA pills with bitcoin, and he tells you the closest stash spot to the nightclub. You go to the nearest McDonalds bathroom and they are taped in one of the cubicles. Name and address not required.

Later, at home you order some ketamine. An hour later, a T-shirt fired from a gun like the one which killed Maude Flanders hits your window and a car screeches off.

You go outside, pick up the T-shirt, and recover the wrap of K contained within.

It will put many students through college


[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] savetheturtle:

IMO money to be made and convenience for buyers alone in a age where techonology is expotentially advancing will let the DNM thrive. Drugs will always be a part of society (especially in the US!) and the DNM market makes everything so convenient for casual to straight junkies alike.

SR was the pandora box for connecting tech and drugs. It's just going to get more technologically advances from here on out.

I'm actually still in bit of a disbelief that I can order drugs without leaving my house. I mean, 10 years ago I had to drive an hour each way to meetup with my dealer to get some coke. Imagine how illegal drugs will be sold 10 years into the future!


[1 Points] druggieslut:

We will be on clearnet soon