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Re:Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark ... by justincormack on Friday November 07, 2014 @09:26AM (#8572586)
The whole idea of a centralized market, with someone syphoning off large amounts of money and being the major legal target, sets it up for failing. Once it becomes a distributed marketplace with all services replicated it becomes much more secure.
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Re:Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark ... by bhouston on Friday November 07, 2014 @11:07AM (#8573130)
So like the distributed tracker system in bittorrent I guess: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Distributed_trackers Some background research on a distributed key/value system that this could serve as a basis for a peer-to-peer distributed marketplace: http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/109.pdf
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Re:Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark ... by williamcotton on Friday November 07, 2014 @01:37PM (#8573957)
DHTs are susceptible to Sybil attacks. A key/value store based on a cryptocurrency would be a better approach if you're looking for a decentralized key/value store that guarantees that the data is available.
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