Would have been nice if the feds hadn't taken all those bitcoins from the innocent silk road users.

AFAIK Silk Road acted like a middle man. You gave it coins, had a balance, and would spend them on whatever.

A lot of people had substantial balances on there, and they had spent their coins on completely legal things. Not even taking part in any of the illegal stuff going on there - but never got their coins back.

A lot of this stuff stems from the RICO laws, where property seized in an investigation doesn't have to be returned.

-scheherazade

There was one of these items supposedly for sale on the Silk Road store on Tor.

course it went fast.

I'm glad this FINALLY came out! It sucks that the LSD lab was shutdown - it's a pretty hard to find substance now. Well, thank goodness for the Silk Road, haha. Anyway, I like Hamilton - I think he's funny. He is sort of like a Nick Cave meets Lurch kinda guy but I appreciate his intentions. I really like the one where he goes to South America to get Ayahuasca & super envious of the time he went to the Blue Lagoon in Iceland and did shrooms, that would be incredible.

I certainly cannot imagine what it would be like to be "poisoned" with psychedelics... it'd surely not be too fun to know you've been poisoned and locked in by someone with evil intent. Ugh. I'm having a bad trip just thinking about it. Krystle was playing with fire & she's super lucky she didn't get burned worse than she did. I still don't understand why she didn't just leave that asshole when the abuse began instead of being a narc.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'bitcoin, drug, silk road, currency, drug way' to 'bitcoin, drug, silk road, currency, drug way, tor, the onion router, anonymous ip' - edited by lucky760

I didn't even know about this until seeing this video and it made me tear up. What he did was wrong, yes but how many Catholic priests and republicans come forward and admit something of this nature AND actually seem honest about their guilt?

Weiner is an incredible politician and his career should not suffer for this - his personal life, probably but not his career - and with the Silk Road drug website now in the media spotlight - Tor might as well be in the spotlight as well. I'm willing to bet that there are a few politicians abusing that program for really evil & creepy reasons. They had better watch the %^$^ out if they think what Weiner did was THAT bad....

I'd read that some bitcoin proponents were concerned that the drug trade would hurt bitcoin's reputation as a serious anonymous currency.

Thoughts?>> ^blankfist:

http://gawker.com/5805928/the-underground-website-where
-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable
The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable
"Mark, a software developer, had ordered the 100 micrograms of acid through a listing on the online marketplace Silk Road. He found a seller with lots of good feedback who seemed to know what they were talking about, added the acid to his digital shopping cart and hit "check out." He entered his address and paid the seller 50 Bitcoins—untraceable digital currency—worth around $150. Four days later the drugs, sent from Canada, arrived at his house."

There is also e-Gold and its various similar services which are used in a similar transactions. I don't think you will find a online drug bazaar for those... or at not one that I know of.

Quote:
Jeff Garzik, a member of the Bitcoin core development team, says in an email that bitcoin is not as anonymous as the denizens of Silk Road would like to believe. He explains that because all Bitcoin transactions are recorded in a public log, though the identities of all the parties are anonymous, law enforcement could use sophisticated network analysis techniques to parse the transaction flow and track down individual Bitcoin users.

"Attempting major illicit transactions with bitcoin, given existing statistical analysis techniques deployed in the field by law enforcement, is pretty damned dumb," he says.



And here is a source about how to be more anonymous while using BitCoin:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity

http://gawker.com/5805928/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable

The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable

"Mark, a software developer, had ordered the 100 micrograms of acid through a listing on the online marketplace Silk Road. He found a seller with lots of good feedback who seemed to know what they were talking about, added the acid to his digital shopping cart and hit "check out." He entered his address and paid the seller 50 Bitcoins—untraceable digital currency—worth around $150. Four days later the drugs, sent from Canada, arrived at his house."

This is the Beatles of Central Asia, this is what I used to listen to when I was but a wee lad.

The song is called Uchkuduk, which in my country is a city, the name translates as "three draw-wells". The song is about a desert expedition seeking shelter at at the "three draw-wells"... he starts... "Hot sun, hot sand, hot lips, oh for a drop of water, hot deserts where footsteps are not seen, tell me caravan man when will there be water?... And the chorus goes "Uchkuduk! The 3 wells! Save us! Save us! Save us from the sun! You are the desert saviour Uchkuduk". Prolly sifting for myself but whatever.

"Yalla," the leading popular music group in the former Soviet central Asian republics, is from Tashkent -- the capital of Uzbekistan, one of the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. The group, whose name is an Uzbek word for a song accompanied by dancing, has become a popular icon in Uzbekistan, frequently serving as cultural ambassadors to international festivals or meetings abroad.

The members of Yalla are graduates of the Ostrovsky Theatrical Art Institute and the Ashrafi State Conservatory in Tashkent. They are not Russian but Uzbek, a Turkic nationality from the crossroads of the ancient Silk Road. Their music incorporates traditional ethnic folk tunes and poetry of Uzbekistan and other Central Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, along with contemporary pop and dance influences, into a unique international blend. They perform songs in more than 10 languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, Nepalese and French as well as Uzbek and Russian.

Formed in the early 1970's, Yalla has appeared on Soviet national television as well as performing in Moscow and elsewhere in the Soviet Union, and on concert tours in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, including featured appearances at the "Voice of Asia" festival.

http://ip1.com/imagina/artists/Yalla.html