The Open Transactions Bazaar is the Real Silk Road 2.0
The Silk Road revolution will not be centralized. Photo via lakpuratravels. Ars Technica recently published an interview with the Dread Pirate Roberts of "Silk Road 2.0", and one of the main points DPR 2.0 made at the end of the interview was that this underground marketplace is a small part of an overall revolution in decentralization. I recently wrote about the ideas of decentralized marketplaces and how they could affect eBay and Amazon, but these marketplaces also play a role when it comes to advancing the philosophy behind Silk Road. It's just a matter of time before this new version....
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If reports are to be believed, a new version of the online drug marketplace Silk Road - "Silk Road Reloaded" - has been launched recently. It is only a coincidence that the new Silk Road's introduction arrived only after the death of its predecessor Silk Road 2. In fact, our research revealed that Silk Road Reloaded was in development for over a year. This somewhat indicates that the makers of previous versions may not be backing this new project after all. And it reflects in the outcome as well. Silk Road Reloaded apparently uses "I2P" instead of the Fed's favorite Tor. I2P stands for....
Former Silk Road merchant Peter Ward has announced his intention to hire a lawyer and file a claim for 100 bitcoins that he says were wrongly taken by the government during its seizure of online black market bazaar Silk Road. The owner of Planet Pluto - a head shop in Devon, England, Ward says he earned the bitcoin - worth $85,000 at press time - lawfully, through the sale of drug accessories such as bongs, marijuana seeds and rolling papers, items he sells successfully online through other outlets. Speaking to Forbes, Ward suggested that he has the ability to prove his transactions on the....
A proliferation of illegal activities admittedly took place on darknet Silk Road marketplace. Very quickly, politicians like Charles Schumer took aim at the Silk Road. Brought down in 2013 by law enforcement, the Silk Road did put an idea into society that is likely here to stay; distributed e-commerce, anonymous and peer-reviewed as can be through the use of digital currency. At its heart: Bitcoin. A digital currency founded in 2008 by an unknown developer, who goes by the name Satoshi Nakamoto, that allows for pseudonymous transactions. Ross Ulbricht, convicted Silk Road founder,....
Wired reports that the shutdown of Silk Road 2 was shut down by FBI's and Europol's Operation Onymous, earlier this month, scattered the Dark Web's drug dealers. But one new and improved crypto market is welcoming and profiting from those refugees: an appropriately named website called Evolution. Evolution, a Tor hidden service only accessible using Tor (like Silk Road and most online drug marketplaces), has more than tripled its rate of growth in new product listings, according to data collected by the non-profit Digital Citizens Alliance, since the demise of Silk Road 2. That's helped....