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Re:Bitcoin drug deals could haunt people for years by sli on Friday January 26, 2018 @11:49AM (#16240628)
This is certainly a concern, but I'm not convinced it's all that rampant. You can't make much money if you 1) poison your customers, or 2) are a brand new seller (e.g. if you make a new account after every sale to avoid stacking negative community ratings).

And if the buyer isn't testing their drugs before doing them, that's on the buyer. That's the reality of that market.

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Re:Bitcoin drug deals could haunt people for years by gomox on Friday January 26, 2018 @07:38PM (#16244108)
I'm sure poisoning customers is bad for business, but the stakes are as high as it gets (pun intended).

Statistically speaking I'm sure a very low percentage of people that do drugs get in trouble with law enforcement as well.

Still, it speaks volumes about the buyers' risk aversion which was the original point.

That being said you have a good point about testing. Personally I'm not a consumer so I don't know how widespread testing is.

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