Topic: Silk Road: anonymous marketplace. Feedback requested :) - page 30. (Read 152817 times)

if the market value of BTC is equivalent to the good and services available for BTC then the market value of BTC is going to skyrocket 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_market


There's a 1.5 trillion dollar market for these items but it's until now it's almost all offline using physical cash due to significant legal concerns.

http://www.havocscope.com/ranking/

 

It's not just silk road

Apparently there's a bunch of markets popping up for all sorts of items and silk road is growing rapidly.  He had to shut down the portal page due to the enormous amount of traffic.   As grondilu pointed out "wow, just had a look at the site. It got pretty impressive with a large choice of different stuffs."

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade (look under "psychoactive") 

wow,   just had a look at the site.   It got pretty impressive with a large choice of different stuffs.

or just buy drugs from silk road and correlate the mailing address with known tor users in that area

Yeah it isn't like they could have I dunno. Loaded bitcoin with WU with a fake ID via an exchanger in Russia, sent it through a mix, cashed it out to pecunix, bounced it to liberty reserve through an online casino, cashed it out to an anonymous domain name registrar in some third world country through a different exchanger and have a random name with no tie to them in the Whois? Seriously do you think they are so retarded as to ever have their real name anywhere near the hosting or domain registration?

Second of all, oh no the FBI might get the hidden service!! Well that isn't very hard considering they could just add some nodes to the Tor network and open an infinite amount of circuits to the hidden service then send a pattern of modulated packets over the circuits until they detect that pattern going to the entry guard. Detect all of the entry guards and then compromise one to find the hidden service. Tor hidden services are better than nothing but they are not that anonymous, although clients are.

But the thing is why would the FBI do this attack to locate the hidden service (assuming they even can which is doubted since they are a bunch of noobs who can't even trace CP hidden services with the same attack) to locate a server that has nothing but asymmetric encrypted orders on it?? Compromise of the hidden service, although not that difficult to do, is of close to zero benefit to an attacker.

talk about amateur hour

Just wanted to jump in to say it's a really interesting idea you have going here.

Oops, it gets worse. Whoever bought the visible website is hosting it with a US company that is reselling server4you.de services. If someone was silly enough to put the Tor hidden service on that server, thinking it safe since it isn't in the US, they're in for a rude awakening when the US company they're paying the bill to grabs the server's data and hands it over to the FBI. I sincerely hope that whoever is running the show didn't make a mistake like that.

I seriously doubt the owner of the visable website is directly connected to whoever runs the Silk Road hidden service on Tor.

I hope that's not the owner's real info...

I'd wager you 50 BTC you can't actually find it's physical server location.

Oops, somebody forgot their whois privacy when they renewed their domain.

Drugs

I thought this was about trade, you know like the Silk on the Silk Road.

Illegal Drugs   Man, that is worse than just plain old Drugs.

In the U.S., wow, that is really not a smart place to do it. Especially, since the U.S. buys up all the supply of Drugs and Illegal Drugs.

 


Seriously, I don't do drugs. Not in favor of them, but there is apparently a supply/demand for them. I would think in this case, it is better to be on the supply side.

Not really sure why one would use the internet.

I am selling Lays Potato chips, 1 BTC per bag. 

This place is waaaay too easy to find, and the operators are personally selling illegal drugs in the united states?? No thanks.
BTW there's a guy selling stolen credit card info on there.....

Not an official one.

But drugs are a revenue stream?

They're having trouble with covert ops funding due to the impending budget shutdown.

The portal page said it would be back up on April 1.  Now it says May 1.   What's going on?  Too much traffic? 

Hi silkroad,

Nice site.
You may want to establish your presence on I2P and Freenet

Regards,
m

P.S. from functionality point of you, feedback could not only show the comment by the buyer, but also the product that was exchanged

silkroad:

I think you should take a look at the drug-related discussion in the other thread:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.71515

FYI, we blocked off the portal page bitcoinmarket.org, thought the .onion is still open.  The link was posted in a few high-profile places and traffic growth exceeded a healthy pace.