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Title: Forbes Dread Pirate Roberts Interview (SR) Post by: xkeyscore89 on August 15, 2013, 01:04:34 AM http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/meet-the-dread-pirate-roberts-the-man-behind-booming-black-market-drug-website-silk-road/2/
I'm not sure this type of publicity is beneficial to the security of the Silk Road. It's interesting, nonetheless. Title: Re: Forbes Dread Pirate Roberts Interview (SR) Post by: vite on August 15, 2013, 12:16:30 PM This article was written in the future...
This story appears in the September 2, 2013 issue of Forbes. Title: Re: Forbes Dread Pirate Roberts Interview (SR) Post by: rn4j0r on August 16, 2013, 04:03:29 AM Was a really good read.
Title: Re: Forbes Dread Pirate Roberts Interview (SR) Post by: inspiredinvestor on August 16, 2013, 06:41:47 AM http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/meet-the-dread-pirate-roberts-the-man-behind-booming-black-market-drug-website-silk-road/2/ I'm not sure this type of publicity is beneficial to the security of the Silk Road. It's interesting, nonetheless. Thanks for that really enjoyed it, the Dread Pirate Roberts as some great suggestions on maintaining security and anon. my kind of character! Title: Re: Forbes Dread Pirate Roberts Interview (SR) Post by: favdesu on August 16, 2013, 06:54:28 AM great insight and very informative article.
thanks for the share! Title: Re: Forbes Dread Pirate Roberts Interview (SR) Post by: QuestionAuthority on August 16, 2013, 07:14:28 AM Interesting. He makes it sound as if the SR economy is as big as the Bitcoin economy. It makes me wonder if Bitcoin really is primarily a vehicle for SR type trading with some small-time legitimate business frosting on top to make it look legit.
Title: Re: Forbes Dread Pirate Roberts Interview (SR) Post by: inspiredinvestor on August 16, 2013, 09:20:31 AM Interesting. He makes it sound as if the SR economy is as big as the Bitcoin economy. It makes me wonder if Bitcoin really is primarily a vehicle for SR type trading with some small-time legitimate business frosting on top to make it look legit. well I think SR was the reason several thousand people got exposed to Bitcoin. I'm in Australia and saw a TV show about SR and discovered Bitcoin. SR is a very successful business model that showed the world how useful Bitcoin is. Title: Re: Forbes Dread Pirate Roberts Interview (SR) Post by: J603 on August 16, 2013, 02:09:37 PM Interesting. He makes it sound as if the SR economy is as big as the Bitcoin economy. It makes me wonder if Bitcoin really is primarily a vehicle for SR type trading with some small-time legitimate business frosting on top to make it look legit. I'd say this is true. Maybe not drug dealing necessarily, but gambling makes up the majority of transactions. Certainly, most of the time if people want an "anonymous" (or pseudonymous) transaction they are not buying something completely legitimate. |