Re:Shedding light on the dark web
by sremani on Thursday July 14, 2016 @02:06PM
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Darknet markets are like Hydra with 10 heads, when Silk Road is taken down, more players entered and when one other dark-market owners closed shop and jumped with vendors bit-coins, new ones with multi-escrow showed up. Again, with each take down people are improvising and making the system a bit more resilient.
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Re:Shedding light on the dark web
by puddintane on Thursday July 14, 2016 @02:21PM
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You gotta wonder if many of these owners who jump ship with vendors money, are the ones who show up suddenly with funds to "save the day".
Re:Shedding light on the dark web
by PhantomGremlin on Thursday July 14, 2016 @08:17PM
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This whole result was fascinating to me.
Ross Ulbricht gets life in federal prison, no possibility of parole, and yet people are tripping all over themselves to take his place.
What an excellent example of Nicholas Naseem Taleb's concept of antifragility.
It's evolution. Survival of the fittest, quite simply. The weakest are taken down, leaving more customers for the remaining, stronger competitors.
It's a rubbish example. The DNMs do not get better thanks to exit scams and takedowns. They get worse, as sensible and experienced administrators depart with a fortune, to be replaced by mendacious incompetents. Nor is the technical side of things any better - they have, if anything, regressed technically on the issue of multisig.