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Title: 2012-11-19 dailymail.co.uk - The eBay for drugs: 'Silk Road' website allows UK d
Post by: julz on November 19, 2012, 09:34:37 PM
Only a couple of Bitcoin mentions.

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The eBay for drugs: 'Silk Road' website allows UK drug users to buy cocaine and heroin by mail order from all over the world

-The drugs are being disguised inside packages and being innocently delivered by Royal Mail
-Silk Road is known as the eBay of the drugs world and allows people to find the best price and also rate the people who sold it to them
-Royal Mail say they have security procedures in place to intercept this post
-The site has £14m annual sales worldwide


Martin Robinson
2012-11-19


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235199/The-eBay-drugs-Silk-Road-website-allows-drug-users-buy-heroin-cannabis-mail-order-world.html


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Drugs are bought with ‘Bitcoins’, an untraceable digital currency.

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System: Users buy a currency called Bitcoins which are totally untraceable and can then purchase LSD tabs like these and then leave a review for the seller like on eBay or Amazon
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Title: Re: 2012-11-19 dailymail.co.uk - The eBay for drugs: 'Silk Road' website allows UK d
Post by: scribe on November 19, 2012, 09:41:33 PM
Pretty much stolen from the Argus article here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=126775.0), unless they have some kind of deal going on. Actually they probably do.


Title: Re: 2012-11-19 dailymail.co.uk - The eBay for drugs: 'Silk Road' website allows UK d
Post by: FreeMoney on November 20, 2012, 06:52:16 AM
What's so innocent about the Royal Mail accepting money for delivering drugs?! <snicker>