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Title: Re: The Silk Road marketplace lives on, despite intense government efforts
Post by: LesterTheEight on May 17, 2014, 02:53:30 PM
"The Silk Road can only be accessed on the Tor browser, which provides complete anonymity for users."

That's assuming the exit nodes you're using aren't compromised..


Title: Re: The Silk Road marketplace lives on, despite intense government efforts
Post by: frankilo on May 17, 2014, 02:55:15 PM
This war on drugs really should end. It's pointless, it's like war on gravity.


Title: Re: The Silk Road marketplace lives on, despite intense government efforts
Post by: bryant.coleman on May 17, 2014, 03:45:47 PM
This war on drugs really should end. It's pointless, it's like war on gravity.

I am not sure about this... but in my opinion, at least the soft drugs (such as cannabis) must be made legal. And back to the topic, the SR 2.0 admins have proved themselves to be extremely trustworthy, after refunding the vendors of their lost Bitcoins. I wouldn't say that I completely agree with the SR 2.0 business. But it was a noble act to refund the vendors.


Title: Re: The Silk Road marketplace lives on, despite intense government efforts
Post by: Foxpup on May 18, 2014, 07:57:04 AM
"The Silk Road can only be accessed on the Tor browser, which provides complete anonymity for users."

That's assuming the exit nodes you're using aren't compromised..
Exit nodes have nothing whatsoever to do with hidden services.


Title: Re: The Silk Road marketplace lives on, despite intense government efforts
Post by: hensi on May 19, 2014, 02:08:14 PM
The Silk Road continues to operate but certainly silk road has suffered a lot of damage after the feds took it down.... I dont think silk road will be able to operate for more than a year


Title: Re: The Silk Road marketplace lives on, despite intense government efforts
Post by: bryant.coleman on May 21, 2014, 04:45:46 PM
The Silk Road continues to operate but certainly silk road has suffered a lot of damage after the feds took it down.... I dont think silk road will be able to operate for more than a year

I don't think so. The SR 2.0 is completely different from the original Silk Road. The admins are different and they are definitely much more competitive than the Dread Pirate Roberts.


Title: Re: The Silk Road marketplace lives on, despite intense government efforts
Post by: bitsmichel on May 21, 2014, 05:06:29 PM
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The Silk Road marketplace lives on, despite intense government efforts to stop it

There is a high demand to buy drugs, so there will always be sites/supplier.  In addition to SR, several other sites have opened (so I've heared). 
Demand is high: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_prevalence_of_cocaine_use

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This war on drugs really should end. It's pointless, it's like war on gravity.

The war on drugs is very profitable for certain individuals


Title: Re: The Silk Road marketplace lives on, despite intense government efforts
Post by: dadugan on May 21, 2014, 05:55:27 PM
Anyone have the link to silk road?


Title: Re: The Silk Road marketplace lives on, despite intense government efforts
Post by: onlyu on May 21, 2014, 10:04:50 PM

The war on drugs is very profitable for certain individuals



Many government jobs will disappear if drugs are legalized.


Title: Re: The Silk Road marketplace lives on, despite intense government efforts
Post by: nickenburg on May 21, 2014, 10:08:36 PM
They can never shut it down, there will always be a new silkroad.
You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Also i think its a way better idea then what we have now,
Alot of people killing eachother over drugs, and with silkroad the violence is cut out.


Title: Re: The Silk Road marketplace lives on, despite intense government efforts
Post by: madken7777 on May 21, 2014, 10:48:35 PM
They can never shut it down, there will always be a new silkroad.
You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Also i think its a way better idea then what we have now,
Alot of people killing eachother over drugs, and with silkroad the violence is cut out.


Alcohol used to be illegal and cost a lot.

Marijuana seems to be walking the same path.


Title: Re: The Silk Road marketplace lives on, despite intense government efforts
Post by: bryant.coleman on May 22, 2014, 04:24:25 AM
Anyone have the link to silk road?

Here is the link to SR 2.0:

silkroad6ownowfk.onion

Forum address:

silkroad5v7dywlc.onion

Check the Reddit subsection as well:

http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/