Topic: Alphabay dark market accepts ethereum - page 2. (Read 2226 times)

What rock you been sleeping under since 2013?

Of course all the lunch money speculators are here to try to make some profit on speculation.


The supermajority of lunch money speculators are FOMO gullible or don't care. Haven't you noticed?

I think some people are looking to profit from this news by pumping the price the way Monero was pumped last year. Only a fool will decide to use Ethereum for transaction on Dark market ahead of all these anonymous tokens

ind deep market , dark market, bitcoin still is the best, because anonymous and easy convertion to fiat money
but is good news if deep market in alphabay in payment support use ethereum

Story is bullshit.
Where is the proof ?
Further more OP you are a shady deceitful ETH shill so your comments are sketchy at best.
Further more more.. your a god damn spammer.
Posting a topic then bumping it right away 2x is a violation of the rules that gets people banned.

i think you're Shilltarded 

ETH needs to die with fire !

That is actually very astute.

They have no power in my OpenShare design. And I am not referring to PoS either.


That will be the one who improves on Satoshi's solution to the problem of decentralized consensus. No one has yet.

Nice to have several options to choose from either way.

As a comparison, EF has vlad that keeps saying eth is not yet secure and scalable but they're working on it, and projects like dash has amanda who's a delusional shill and hype it. Human quality comparison.

From my POV, currently a public crypto project simply cannot work without leadership as some naive people believe. Because in their flawed logic that means centralization ( someone like dinofelis ). Bitcoin is first example, it started anonymous but b-core is leading the development atm and BU is challenging them. If there's no leader, someone will eventually rise. Natural selection.

So, people in crypto projects by importance:

1. Genius programmers that are also natural leaders ( someone like vitalik ).
2. Programmers.
3. Other employees ( aka public relations, marketing, etc )
3. Random contributors / coin holders.
4. Miners. I really don't know why people believe/think it's okay for miners to have power. They provide a service because they make profit. Investors/holders pay real money for something that may prove a bad investment so they take a huge risk, but as a miner you simply can't lose money unless you're dumb and start buying equipment for something that's not profitable to mine. Not to mention they can cause alot of harm, see bitcoin.

@iamnotback so i don't just think programmers matter alot, i think every project needs a vitalik. Someone not just a genius programmer, but someone that can be a leader, someone that people listen to and they respect, someone with high ethical standards that will eventually surround himself with the same kind of people.
Just look at dash their own employees hype the project lol. Someone like amanda.

Because you can build all the experimental smart contract ICO tokenized apps on ETH. So many of them in the pipeline now. Ethereum is possibly winning the race for developer mindshare.

Right now we claim that none of these apps will ever get any real world adoption, but we forget the speculators are the users. And now the developers are the users. Programmers matter A LOT.

I don't think Ethereum's technical design and ICO model is the best possible one, but there is nothing shipping now (or about to ship this month) which is unarguably better in app developer mindshare.

Who is in second place? Bitcoin or Steem?

And one or more of those ETH apps may end up causing a mania again. May not happen, but the chance of happening is one of the reasons to hold ETH.

Because of bitcoin's problems of late, (transaction times, fees, hardfork uncertainty) they had to look for alternatives. So ethereum is the best option because it has liquidity and the closest one to implement mass scaling and also privacy. Monero has privacy ( not sure how good it is ) but it won't either scale nor will increase much in value / be very liquid.

Big, big big Amen.

While Monero makes some sense there, I don't see why would anybody use Ethereum instead of Bitcoin.
Keep in mind that most have cash and would have to buy Bitcoin, then exchange to Ethereum ... I don't see the benefit in that.

well, might be true, but it's always nice to be ahead of the curve...

I'll take that ~0 anytime anywhere

http://www.coindesk.com/danish-police-claim-breakthrough-bitcoin-tracking/

edit: if you ask me, people still using btc for that are plain idiots, these transactions are there in the blockchain forever, written in stone...

Zero transactions will be done with Eth, just like ~0 transactions are done with monero. Maybe ~2% of vendors even ACCEPT monero.

Most volume on Alphabay is made by Bitcoin, tiny bit with Monero zero with DASH. You should ask this in Bitcoin part of forum. Probably they are scared of world computer 

So, monero and dash investors, what do you think of this ? ETH seems to be taking market share from the projects you guys invested in ( black market ). It's really laughable to create coins for dark market purposes and lose the battle against another crypto project that didn't even intended to be used that way.

The latest rumor/info was that raiden will be implemented this march, but no confirmation on the exact date yet. This may be one of the main reasons for adding ETH on alphabay, because it will actually scale the network and bring anonymity.

Ok, this doesn't surprise me. Even though ethereum doesn't have privacy implemented yet in it's core, it's more desirable than other wannabe anonymous cryptos because it's the same for everyone. You don't have to trust a trusted setup for it, which would be extremely risky for a dark market. But it's privacy will be implemented with raiden and zk snarks.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AlphaBayMarket/comments/60355i/alphabay_will_add_etherum_to_its_payment_options/