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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by jsnk on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:20PM (#6511355)
Why are you so scared of black market? It's just another word for people trying to make transactions with one another voluntarily.
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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by pfraze on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:27PM (#6511398)
We might just have a semantic disagreement, but Wikipedia supports the definition that I'm using [1]:

> A black market or underground economy is the market in which goods or services are traded illegally. The key distinction of a black market trade is that the transaction itself is illegal.

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

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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by baddox on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:00PM (#6512332)
Your two semantic proposals are completely compatible.
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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by pfraze on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:24PM (#6512849)
They really shouldn't be.
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