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Topic: Operator of Silk Road 2.0, Blake Benthall, arrested yesterday by FBI agents in S - page 2. (Read 8418 times)

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...I read an article few months ago all about it...

Wandererfromthenorth, you are angry and confused.  Please read the Blake Benthall Criminal Complaint here for a lollercoaster of hilarity.

SR2 charged for its services.  Dr. Blake was not running a free P2P clinic.
Re. "I'm not even sure the majority of the Fake IDs being sold in the SR were real fake IDs in the first place":
Of course fake IDs were fake. Start spending substantially more or substantially less on your medication of choice, the current regiment clearly hampers your reasoning ability.
And you can trust me--I'm a P2P doctor Cool

Re. "If drugs are not being sold safely peacefully online, they are sold in the streets with people robbing and killing each other":
Substitute "loli, shota, guns, hits" for "drugs," and your argument remains just as valid.

TL;DR: The feds don't want drugs being sold, peacefully or otherwise.  Blake was the idiot poster child of neckbeard drug trade.  Buying a Tesla, I mean, how gay is that?
Monumentally incompetent, astoundingly clueless, doing everything short of screaming "look at me ma, I'm doing it!  I'm doing it! Ma!"

The only thing I'm unsure about is if Mr. Benthall is real, or if he's a government agent planted to make "darknet" drug dealers look stoopit Undecided



1. By the REAL "fake ID" I meant that the vendors accounts selling fake IDs were not selling anything at all (basically a scammer, there was a lot of that on SR1 by new vendors without reputation), of course fake IDs are fake. By what I gathered about the old SR, fake Id and a lot of other shit was mostly like the sites selling hitman services. A scam.
But again, that fake ID shit is beyond my main point.
2. I haven't been following Blake Benthall case much because as I said to you earlier operating a SR version 2.0 after the first SR bust was pretty stupid, as you pointed out before and now also. So with all the "the idiot asked for it" argument, I have nothing to say against that.

My arguments were mostly for SR1 in general. Since I wasn't referring to Blake Benthall and SR2 much (SR2 wasn't even the most used darknet site ), I probably shouldn't have him included in my posts, that is correct.



PS: SR (at least version 1) didn't even allow guns, hitman scams, or child porn ("loli"?).
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...I read an article few months ago all about it...

Wandererfromthenorth, you are angry and confused.  Please read the Blake Benthall Criminal Complaint here for a lollercoaster of hilarity.

SR2 charged for its services.  Dr. Blake was not running a free P2P clinic.
Re. "I'm not even sure the majority of the Fake IDs being sold in the SR were real fake IDs in the first place":
Of course fake IDs were fake. Start spending substantially more or substantially less on your medication of choice, the current regiment clearly hampers your reasoning ability.
And you can trust me--I'm a P2P doctor Cool

Re. "If drugs are not being sold safely peacefully online, they are sold in the streets with people robbing and killing each other":
Substitute "loli, shota, guns, hits" for "drugs," and your argument remains just as valid.

TL;DR: The feds don't want drugs being sold, peacefully or otherwise.  Blake was the idiot poster child of neckbeard drug trade.  Buying a Tesla, I mean, how gay is that?
Monumentally incompetent, astoundingly clueless, doing everything short of screaming "look at me ma, I'm doing it!  I'm doing it! Ma!"

The only thing I'm unsure about is if Mr. Benthall is real, or if he's a government agent planted to make "darknet" drug dealers look stoopit Undecided

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Cluster headaches can be avoided by hooking up to O2 in time.
As far as I know not avoided, alleviated.
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Also, when people hear "drugs" or "Silk Road" they think about crack, meth and heroin.

...none of which were sold on SR2.
The clientele--shellshocked cancer patients suffering from cluster headaches--came to SR2 in search of...

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...medical cannabis... MDMA for PTSD ...  LSD/Psilocybin Mushrooms for cancer patients and cluster headaches (pretty much the only solution THAT WORKS as a cure for people who have them)

And because heartless gubermibnts sadistically criminalized these life-saving medications, SR2 was forced to sell fake passports (to facilitate travel to more humane localities), and carding/skimming crap (to make the medical international travel more affordable).

Yeah, totally relate, bro.
I'm an anhedonia sufferer myself.  BRB, banging speedballs to feel normal.


What in God's Holy Name Are You Blathering About?

SR was free, you could sell whatever the fuck you wanted (aside from weapons and child porn, at least SR1 was like that).
Vendors and users exchanged directly between each other, SR being only a site hosted that allowed the exchange of information (the user address) and of the currency.

SR was the only place where people needing the drugs I mentioned could have them without having to take too much risk on the streets and having a product that was not adulterated, clean, of quality (reputation system) etc.
That's it.

Vendors selling the drugs I mentioned probably had nothing to do with people selling fake IDs and what not.
I'm not even sure the majority of the Fake IDs being sold in the SR were real fake IDs in the first place.
There was a lot of bullshit apparently being sold by new users and scammers (but could be easily avoided by looking at the vendors reputation).

I read an article few months ago all about it.

There are sites on the DarkNet selling Hitman services. Do you think they are real? Totally not scams to get some BTC or bad jokes



Your posts are getting pretty fucking ridiculous lately.
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Any explanation about how did he get caught?
We will never get the real story. The FBI is notorious for being intentionally hazy on the events leading up to an arrest.

Probably because a lot of the time they are forced to break the law in order to enforce it.

But they are the good guys, so it's ok, right?
Well according to the criminal complaint they were able to figure out that Blake was the owner of SR2 because he was extremely lazy in covering his tracks.
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Yes but they got what they deserved. What they were doing was illegal and what did they expect.

No, they are not getting "what they deserve." Just because something is illegal doesn't mean those found guilty of it "deserve" what happens to them.

It's illegal for women in Saudi Arabia to commit adultery. Does this mean that women found guilty of it deserve to be executed?

There was a time in the United States where my current girlfriend and I could have been sent to jail/prison merely for being in an intimate relationship. It wasn't only socially unacceptable, it was criminal. Would we have deserved to be sent to prison?

In 50-100 years, we will look back as a society at the drug war and shake our heads with disbelief.

People like you allow government and other non-thinkers to dictate your right and wrong. It is the ignorance of you, and people like you, that historically has allowed horrible things to happen to people for relatively benign offenses.

THINK, goddamn you people...THINK.
Yep.

Also, when people hear "drugs" or "Silk Road" they think about crack, meth and heroin.
But what about medical cannabis? What about MDMA for PTSD? What about LSD/Psilocybin Mushrooms for cancer patients and cluster headaches (pretty much the only solution THAT WORKS as a cure for people who have them)?

There is serious research being conducted (http://www.maps.org/) on the enormous benefits of these substances if used responsibly and in the right setting.
They are all illegal.

Cluster headaches can be avoided by hooking up to O2 in time.
Also caffeine can cause headaches.

IMO you should be able to choose if you want to use drugs. There is also a major difference between drug types.
If you do take drugs then be aware of health risks and the risk of losing your job if it impairs your health or judgement.
Drugs do benefit some individuals so let them use them.

How does using drugs make you a criminal?!? I still don't understand that...
Only if you kill someone or break the law under the influence of drugs you are a criminal in my opinion.
Alcohol is a worse drug than cannabis and it is not illegal ... that's discrimination Tongue.

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...
Also, when people hear "drugs" or "Silk Road" they think about crack, meth and heroin.

...none of which were sold on SR2.
The clientele--shellshocked cancer patients suffering from cluster headaches--came to SR2 in search of...

Quote

...medical cannabis... MDMA for PTSD ...  LSD/Psilocybin Mushrooms for cancer patients and cluster headaches (pretty much the only solution THAT WORKS as a cure for people who have them)

And because heartless gubermibnts sadistically criminalized these life-saving medications, SR2 was forced to sell fake passports (to facilitate travel to more humane localities), and carding/skimming crap (to make the medical international travel more affordable).

Yeah, totally relate, bro.
I'm an anhedonia sufferer myself.  BRB, banging speedballs to feel normal.
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Any explanation about how did he get caught?

I'm more concerned about wether they managed to break tor or not than about btc price
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Yes but they got what they deserved. What they were doing was illegal and what did they expect.

No, they are not getting "what they deserve." Just because something is illegal doesn't mean those found guilty of it "deserve" what happens to them.

It's illegal for women in Saudi Arabia to commit adultery. Does this mean that women found guilty of it deserve to be executed?

There was a time in the United States where my current girlfriend and I could have been sent to jail/prison merely for being in an intimate relationship. It wasn't only socially unacceptable, it was criminal. Would we have deserved to be sent to prison?

In 50-100 years, we will look back as a society at the drug war and shake our heads with disbelief.

People like you allow government and other non-thinkers to dictate your right and wrong. It is the ignorance of you, and people like you, that historically has allowed horrible things to happen to people for relatively benign offenses.

THINK, goddamn you people...THINK.
Yep.

Also, when people hear "drugs" or "Silk Road" they think about crack, meth and heroin.
But what about medical cannabis? What about MDMA for PTSD? What about LSD/Psilocybin Mushrooms for cancer patients and cluster headaches (pretty much the only solution THAT WORKS as a cure for people who have them)?

There is serious research being conducted (http://www.maps.org/) on the enormous benefits of these substances if used responsibly and in the right setting.
They are all illegal.
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Wonder what's happened to his BTC, hope he had enough time, maybe out on bail before prosecution to put them in cold storage & hide them somewhere in preparation for his release one day?

He is a flight risk and not released on bail.

Another load of BTC lost then.
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I wouldn't say it's just about better lawyers and being less convenient to prosecute, it's also about fucked up drug laws (and those CAN be changed).


Knowing the ridiculous reasons for it doesn't make it less of a gigantic disgusting contradiction though.
It's people's entire lives we are talking about here, not a fart in a movie theater.

What can I tell you?  Complaining on speculation forums won't change things.



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...and we wanna get loaded!
Not complaining nor whining.
Just posted facts and opinions related to the topic of this thread.
That's what this forum is for, posting facts and opinions.
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Wonder what's happened to his BTC, hope he had enough time, maybe out on bail before prosecution to put them in cold storage & hide them somewhere in preparation for his release one day?

He is a flight risk and not released on bail.
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Wonder what's happened to his BTC, hope he had enough time, maybe out on bail before prosecution to put them in cold storage & hide them somewhere in preparation for his release one day?
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Who's there?
DPR was hiring hitmen to kill, so if he remains stuck in jail thats quite deserved.

This dude goes on to operate right near the FEDs after that, and so deserves to be in simply for stupidity.
Governments are hiring hitmens (aka military) to kill (aka wage wars) so if governmets remains stuck in jail thats would be quite deserved. If hiring hitmen to kill is enough for life in prison, then all US presidents should be there. And all who voted for them - as well, as accomplices.
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Silk Road 3.0 is almost guaranteed to come out within the next 3 months.
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^Bankers have better lawyers and are less convenient/advantageous to prosecute.

They're also shielded from prosecution by the very regulations that are supposedly intended to rein in their conduct.  Bank and similar corporations are also expert in compartmentalizing criminal activities so that no individual is personally responsible for committing all of the necessary elements of a crime, and the left hand knows not what the right is doing, so that the government would be obliged, if it wanted to, to prosecute the corporation itself.  Corporations can't be thrown in prison.

The hilarious thing is that in such actions, which are often crimes against the shareholders and customers of the corporation itself, even a conviction would simply result in a fine, which the malefactors would in turn pay out of funds from the very people they ripped off in the first place, i.e., the shareholders and customers.

So the victims get fucked twice.  Meanwhile, the people actually responsible go on their merry way and vote themselves a fat bonus out of the "bailout" money they get if the company goes belly-up because of their mismanagement.

Great gig if you can get it.
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The escrow function never worked so it was not a safe place to do business.

Yes.  Apparently they had a man inside from the start.  He likely sabotaged anything that would have made it secure, including the multisig security.  The weak link is always humans.
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OTC chart today for local bitcoins shows no drop in demand for BTC suggesting the SR 2.0 bust was a non-factor, aside from making a few headlines.

http://bitcoinity.org/markets/localbitcoins/USD

The escrow function never worked so it was not a safe place to do business.
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DPR was hiring hitmen to kill, so if he remains stuck in jail thats quite deserved.

This dude goes on to operate right near the FEDs after that, and so deserves to be in simply for stupidity.
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