Forbes Dread Pirate Roberts Interview (SR)

[xkeyscore89]

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.

[vite]

This article was written in the future...

This story appears in the September 2, 2013 issue of Forbes.

[rn4j0r]

Was a really good read.

[inspiredinvestor]

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!

[favdesu]

great insight and very informative article.

thanks for the share!

[QuestionAuthority]

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.

[inspiredinvestor]

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.

[J603]

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.