Silk Road and Bitcoins - Buy drugs online?

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Interesting article... The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable

Silk Road, a digital black market that sits just below most internet users' purview, does resemble something from a cyberpunk novel. Through a combination of anonymity technology and a sophisticated user-feedback system, Silk Road makes buying and selling illegal drugs as easy as buying used electronics—and seemingly as safe. It's Amazon—if Amazon sold mind-altering chemicals.

Here is just a small selection of the 340 items available for purchase on Silk Road by anyone, right now: a gram of Afghani hash; 1/8th ounce of "sour 13" weed; 14 grams of ecstasy; .1 grams tar heroin. A listing for "Avatar" LSD includes a picture of blotter paper with big blue faces from the James Cameron movie on it. The sellers are located all over the world, a large portion from the U.S. and Canada.

But even Silk Road has limits: You won't find any weapons-grade plutonium, for example. Its terms of service ban the sale of "anything who's purpose is to harm or defraud, such as stolen credit cards, assassinations, and weapons of mass destruction."

Getting to Silk Road is tricky. The URL seems made to be forgotten. But don't point your browser there yet. It's only accessible through the anonymizing network TOR, which requires a bit of technical skill to configure.
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Anyone familiar with Silk Road or Bitcoin? I have heard of TOR before (from this forum), but that's about it.
 


schockergd said:
Do they have guns? I've always been curious of what BM gun costs are compared to the typical market.
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Right now, no. Nothing that can be used to harm others. I am going to guess that eventually those types of markets will open up thru TOR and use Bitcoin, though.
 
So how do you get to it or any idea or any IRC channels to scope out?
 
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Used it multiple times with no problems transatlantic.

1. Buy bitcoin with paypal at bitcoin-otc.
2. Get drugs sent to house.
3. ??? ;)
4. Profit
 
music4mic said:
this won't last. It's a shame cause it's a great idea. But anonymity is the enemy of a fascist police state.
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There will always be shit like this even with the fascist police state. The underground web is massive and very difficult to trace. You will always have people that get busted but if an entire site gets busted it will just move to another obscure place and go on undetected for years. I find the money laundering with bitcoin the most interesting part of the equation.
 
dmnEPC said:
There will always be shit like this even with the fascist police state. The underground web is massive and very difficult to trace. You will always have people that get busted but if an entire site gets busted it will just move to another obscure place and go on undetected for years. I find the money laundering with bitcoin the most interesting part of the equation.
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Yeh, I agree- it will get busted and something new will pop up, just like torrent sites themselves have.

dmnEPC said:
I find the money laundering with bitcoin the most interesting part of the equation.
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And this is what they'll likely use to shut the whole thing down, and probably will blame it on terrorism
 
BitCoins are the future :)

takes forever to mine them tho. Need to be part of a mining group to get enough BitCoins to be worth while. If you mine from just 1-2 computers, you will only get like 50 every 2-300 days :Z
 
(O_o) said:
BitCoins are the future :)

takes forever to mine them tho. Need to be part of a mining group to get enough BitCoins to be worth while. If you mine from just 1-2 computers, you will only get like 50 every 2-300 days :Z
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Whats the deal with the mining?
 
There are plenty of drug forums with reliable vendors for every drug imaginable. Purity for things like cocaine are amazing on a few of the sources I've known. They get it tested in foreign countries (Where the vendors are usually based) and post proof. Also, a few of the forums have "group buys" where you order an OZ of whatever drug when 4 or 8 people want the drug so that you save a lot of money per eighth.

PGP encrypted e-mail/private forum on TOR where at least 2 members need to vouch for your membership to be accepted.

Shit is big business, no joke.
 
dmnEPC said:
Whats the deal with the mining?
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What is Bitcoin Pooled Mining?

Bitcoin pooled mining is a way for multiple users to work together to mine bitcoins, and to share the benefits fairly.

Why do I need bitcoin pool?

Bitcoins are ordinarily only ever created in chunks of 50 at a time, with the whole 50 paid to a single person. Furthermore, the race to get the 50 BTC prize in a given block is highly competitive.

If you set out mining on your own, it may be a long time before you can make a return. Pooled mining allows you to receive smaller, more frequent, steadier payouts instead. If you have a slower computer, or a CPU miner, then pooled mining may be the only way that you will ever mine any bitcoins at all.

How does bitcoin pool work?

Our server gives users blocks of very low difficulty to solve. Each solution found is registered as one 'share'. Occasionally, a solution will happen to also meet the full-strength difficulty requirements of the Bitcoin network, resulting in a successful 50 BTC minting.

This 50 BTC is divided among all of the users that contributed to that round, weighted by the number of shares that they earned. Therefore, the reward earned by a given user is given by the following formula:

(50 BTC - 1 BTC fee) * (shares found by user's workers) / (total shares in current round)
Shares do not carry over from one round to the next. When the pool mine a block, only users who worked on that block are rewarded, and only for work they did on that block. This is an unavoidable consequence of the way that Bitcoin mining in general works.
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from = mining.bitcoin.cz

explains it pretty well.


Also make your website and users mine for you = bitp.it - Turn Visitors into Bitcoins
 
-joe- said:
Fucking Gawker... One more step towards the FBI/whatever bothering.

Looks like I'll need to be finding a new source...
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Silk Road has been around for at LEAST a few years. If you think the government/FBI is just learning about it because of some wired/gawker article....you are sorely mistaken.

And believe me...the abundance of CP on the Tor network is a far bigger concern for the Feds.

Yet they havent and cant do anything about that either.
 
This is really fascinating - thanks for posting.


The physical mail address is the weakest link here.... a maildrop would be safer than home address. If/when these sites do get busted, you wouldn't want your details in an access database lying around.

Police won't be onto this for a while.... it's far too technical for most of the plod in the UK.
 
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