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legendary
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October 02, 2013, 12:09:03 PM
#92
Has anybody posted "THIS IS A GOOD THING" yet?

I've read that already somewhere around, one claimed that he didn't wanted btc associated with SR, to be honest I feel the same way.

How do you feel about cash being associated with buying weed? Or cocaine? Maybe you should tell those folks you don't like your dollars being associated... bottom line is currency will be used to purchase items. There is nothing inherently wrong with what SR was doing - what's wrong is the overstepping of jurisdiction by the US, crushing personal freedoms and enforcing lifestyle mandates as well as long term incarceration for voluntary behaviors. If no one was buying anything, what's the point of a medium of transfer? Let people buy what they want, so long as they aren't bothering you. SR wasn't just a boon to BTC, it was a boon to the world, circumventing tyrannical oppression of lifestyle mandate...

Hell, our tax -dollars- buy bombs and murders all day, far more than have ever even been considered to purchase with coin, I don't see enough people complaining to those ordering the hits..

Are you seriously supporting SR? Your opinion might change if your kids were hooked on drugs. Society has rules to keep the strong from preying on the weak. Yes, it's a very flawed system but a necessary one. Would you really want to live in a world where it's ok to buy a contract to murder someone because they upset you. I wouldn't.

Well, I personally don't have anything against drugs, while I would never engage any activity that could get me in jail: not only because of self-protection, also because I would never do that to my kids and family. That said, I have a lot against cold blooded murders who hire hitmans and pay upon receival of a picture of a corpse. That's disgusting. Honestly: if that's true, may he rot in jail forever.
legendary
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October 02, 2013, 12:07:15 PM
#91
Has anybody posted "THIS IS A GOOD THING" yet?

I've read that already somewhere around, one claimed that he didn't wanted btc associated with SR, to be honest I feel the same way.

How do you feel about cash being associated with buying weed? Or cocaine? Maybe you should tell those folks you don't like your dollars being associated... bottom line is currency will be used to purchase items. There is nothing inherently wrong with what SR was doing - what's wrong is the overstepping of jurisdiction by the US, crushing personal freedoms and enforcing lifestyle mandates as well as long term incarceration for voluntary behaviors. If no one was buying anything, what's the point of a medium of transfer? Let people buy what they want, so long as they aren't bothering you. SR wasn't just a boon to BTC, it was a boon to the world, circumventing tyrannical oppression of lifestyle mandate...

Hell, our tax -dollars- buy bombs and murders all day, far more than have ever even been considered to purchase with coin, I don't see enough people complaining to those ordering the hits..

Are you seriously supporting SR? Your opinion might change if your kids were hooked on drugs. Society has rules to keep the strong from preying on the weak. Yes, it's a very flawed system but a necessary one. Would you really want to live in a world where it's ok to buy a contract to murder someone because they upset you. I wouldn't.
legendary
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sr. member
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October 02, 2013, 12:04:38 PM
#89
Anybody have the pdf on a different hosted site? The original is too flooded...

Someone posted this link to it earlier http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf
hero member
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What doesn't kill you only makes you sicker!
October 02, 2013, 12:03:53 PM
#88
Does anyone know what time (UTC) his arrest happened?
legendary
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October 02, 2013, 12:02:20 PM
#87
This worked for me:

http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf

I will mirror it if it comes/stays down
sr. member
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October 02, 2013, 12:01:39 PM
#86
Has anybody posted "THIS IS A GOOD THING" yet?

I've read that already somewhere around, one claimed that he didn't wanted btc associated with SR, to be honest I feel the same way.

How do you feel about cash being associated with buying weed? Or cocaine? Maybe you should tell those folks you don't like your dollars being associated... bottom line is currency will be used to purchase items.

I am sorry but this post is way off the mark and poor attempt at explaining your position.  It is out of context.

One does not think anyone who has cash is automatically a criminal, but those who are uneducated think if you have a bitcoin you are a criminal.  Why is this?  If you search bitcoin you will found tons of media coverage on the criminal use of bitcoin, and find very little info on legitimate ways to benefit from the currency, unless you dig deeper.

So on the surface this is the general perception of bitcoin, but this is not the perception of cash in most cases.  So although they have many similarities as far as a currency goes, the public perception of these 2 currencies are not the same.

So yes I would like that perception to change and if it doesn't the bitcoin your holding will never be worth much more than it is now.
full member
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October 02, 2013, 12:00:43 PM
#85
Anybody have the pdf on a different hosted site? The original is too flooded...
legendary
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October 02, 2013, 11:59:30 AM
#84
Crazy shit:



Wow I hate to say this.. but the owner of silkroad is an idiot..

And a murderer. We don't need murderers paying for "clean" or "un-clean" hits in BTC. What a piece of shit.

As many stated here, the fact he was caught is a good thing.
sr. member
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October 02, 2013, 11:59:10 AM
#83
can someone post a link to the full report?
full member
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October 02, 2013, 11:58:08 AM
#82
This happened pretty darn shortly after Atlantis shut down.
full member
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October 02, 2013, 11:57:53 AM
#81
Crazy shit:



This makes me think they were investigating SR rather casually. If I was a narc I could find DPR in 20 minutes if he made such flagrant errors.
sr. member
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October 02, 2013, 11:57:47 AM
#80
Crazy shit:



Wow I hate to say this.. but the owner of silkroad is an idiot..
sr. member
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October 02, 2013, 11:55:48 AM
#79
Probably a good time to sell, speculation-wise...

Or to buy  Wink

Let's see how good our forecasting skills are.
legendary
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October 02, 2013, 11:53:55 AM
#78
Crazy shit:

hero member
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What doesn't kill you only makes you sicker!
October 02, 2013, 11:53:03 AM
#77
For those worried about the effect it's going to have on the price of Bitcoin, it seems to have stabilised around 134 and there are plenty willing to buy at that price point.

Who knows what 24 hours will bring!
legendary
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October 02, 2013, 11:51:57 AM
#76
Has anybody posted "THIS IS A GOOD THING" yet?

That the US govt has agents who can actually catch somebody if they put their minds to it and prove they are not incompetent?

That the golden boy of silk road was scum if the accusations are true and really belongs in prison?

That we can wait and see if bitcoin has legs and can withstand SR failing overnight?
legendary
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October 02, 2013, 11:51:42 AM
#75
Wouldn't it be more likely that the owner made a human mistake and got caught somehow?

Read the indictment. They are monitoring these forums (and much more), they looked how a guy called "altoid" mentioned SR very early on, he had registered that account with his real email (BTW, Theymos: how did they get the email through which he registered his btctalk account?). So they thoroughly monitored "Ross Ulbricht", and they realized he had the same interests of DPR - they wrote about the same books, liked the same videos... So they started to follow his moves... And they caught him.

They are watching.

Of critical interest?

Remember that db leak back in 2011?
sr. member
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October 02, 2013, 11:51:35 AM
#74
Has anybody posted "THIS IS A GOOD THING" yet?

I've read that already somewhere around, one claimed that he didn't wanted btc associated with SR, to be honest I feel the same way.

How do you feel about cash being associated with buying weed? Or cocaine? Maybe you should tell those folks you don't like your dollars being associated... bottom line is currency will be used to purchase items. There is nothing inherently wrong with what SR was doing - what's wrong is the overstepping of jurisdiction by the US, crushing personal freedoms and enforcing lifestyle mandates as well as long term incarceration for voluntary behaviors. If no one was buying anything, what's the point of a medium of transfer? Let people buy what they want, so long as they aren't bothering you. SR wasn't just a boon to BTC, it was a boon to the world, circumventing tyrannical oppression of lifestyle mandate...

Hell, our tax -dollars- buy bombs and murders all day, far more than have ever even been considered to purchase with coin, I don't see enough people complaining to those ordering the hits..
sr. member
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October 02, 2013, 11:50:21 AM
#73
If his onion site was compromised, that means that these communications about DPR ordering hits could also be faked.
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