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‘SR DNMs’ directory

Screenshot of the homepage of the Tor darknet market Silk Road 1 run by Ross Ulbricht in 2012, showing the wide variety of illegal drugs available for pseudonymous purchase with Bitcoin.

His­tory, back­ground, vis­it­ing, or­der­ing, using, & an­a­lyz­ing the drug mar­ket Silk Road 1

The cypher­punk move­ment laid the ide­o­log­i­cal roots of Bit­coin and the on­line drug mar­ket Silk Road; bal­anc­ing pre­vi­ous em­pha­sis on cryp­tog­ra­phy, I em­pha­size the non-cryptographic mar­ket as­pects of Silk Road which is rooted in cypher­punk eco­nomic rea­son­ing, and give a fully de­tailed ac­count of how a buyer might use mar­ket in­for­ma­tion to ra­tio­nally buy, and fin­ish by dis­cussing strengths and weak­nesses of Silk Road, and what fu­ture de­vel­op­ments are pre­dicted by cypher­punk ideas.

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