Silk Road
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- yurimon0
82% of bitcoin were used on Silk Road
Silk Road collected 9.5 million bitcoin—and only 11.75 million exist
- ukit20
It seems like the demand will go somewhere else. What are the competitors to Silk Road?
- Atlantis was a main competitor but it shut down a few weeks ago.orrinward2
- ... Before getting caught. Presumably they saw this coming.orrinward2
- zaq0
BlackMarketReloaded
- prophetone0
if the gov't is now on vacation, can these guys can put in for raiding overtime?
- can type not properly can?prophetone
- you typed it finemonospaced
- xpxhxoxexnxixx0
yeah, some vacation. i guess this was still considered an 'essential' part of the govt to keep on running. The country is in massive debt and they cant agree on how to spend their imaginary money. But we can arrest a guy for having a site that uses imaginary monies!
- yurimon0
I can't imagine that he would say or do anything out of his location. I think it seems politically convenient to get this guy. would be interesting to see the evidence if not suppressed. It pretty common for these guys to testi-lie.
- xpxhxoxexnxixx0
Several things to note
- he used the same handle on multiple sites to advertise SR (which is true)
- TOR, as we know it was created by America, so itd be stupid to think they still dont have their hands in itAND, the most ironic part here, it was the Canadian's that caught him. they opened his mail (oh how lucky for them they opened the right one by chance!) and found fake ID's.
That being said, yes, it is quite convenient now. I dont believe in coincidence anymore when it comes to US events.
- Question is if he had tech expertise to pull this off?. someone had to set up everything with the server..yurimon
- albums0
Legos? No. It's Lego toys or Lego bricks.
- lego my eggo, bro.lvl_13
- OG Legos my dude. not that new crap.
xpxhxoxexnxixx - ask Lego, dude, "Legos" isn't in the company vocabularyalbums
- you missed my point. Legos as in 'i bought some Legos'. do you ever go 'oh bricks or toys?' i meant Legos as anything but drugs & weapons. Not as exact terminology.xpxhxoxexnxixx
- the plural of lego is legokota
- its still "legos", go play with your barbies.moldero
- Legolas?sem
- scarabin0
here's current info on the silk road subreddit fallout page
- scarabin0
this is gonna make a great movie
- I see several possible versions. the victim rebel version and how great the surveillance state is versionyurimon
- this.Krassy
- http://www.qbn.com/t…ukit2
- capn_ron0
somehow this reminds me of napster but on a whole different level. They just want the main guy so they can send a message. It just means there will be another option opening up soon. I really wanted to buy some stuff from this site but never got the balls to go through with it.
- utopian0
And how long did it take for the CIA/FBI/Homeland Security to catch Osama bin Laden again?
- i have no idea, and i would bet 95% of everyone else has no idea either. did they know and not do anything? did they have him dead to rights before? did they really not know until that one week? who knows. We knew Ramsi Yousef was part of all that and let him go too. so...xpxhxoxexnxixx
- fiver0
- "The website is run on what is known as the "Onion router" or "Tor" network, which makes it "practically impossible" to physically locate the computers hosting or accessing websites on the network, the affidavit said." --yeah, unless you are working with the people that invented it.xpxhxoxexnxixx
- ukit20
Federal drug charges for Bellevue, WA man involved in 'Silk Road'
- xpxhxoxexnxixx0
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrma…
Now arresting 8 more ppl - US, UK, Sweden, etc.
The sad part is, Bankers, Investors, and the like are allowed to lie cheat & steal their way up to the top, they still get their bonuses, and no one ever gets arrested and does time. But they have plenty of resources while the govt is 'shutdown' to make arrests for a black market website. Carry on.
- True but a bunch of criminals buying and selling illegal shit cant be ignored, so this needed to be taken down.CygnusZero4
- are you a nun Cygnus?ernexbcn
- ukit20
What makes you think they just want the main guy? From Reddit link:
"It's unstated from when the investigation started, but they received a complete copy of the Silk Road web server on the 23rd of July 2013. This was all done under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, which implies that they had access to current site information up until the point they shut the site down. This included user account and transaction information. It's unclear whether or not this covers addresses and other sensitive transaction information."
I'd be surprised if they don't go after the major sellers.
- es possible. i just guessing they want to send a message to others to not do thiscapn_ron
- i can't remember, did big sharers get busted when napster went down?capn_ron
- You're talking about sharing MP3s vs selling coke and heroinukit2
- I'd be surprised if they turned a blind eye but who knowsukit2
- both are federal crimes, but you have a point. just conversing here.capn_ron