M I L L E N N I U M C O I NSaturday
Night Bulletin
#7
Yes we are getting started.. or moving on with
the usual relaxed near-stupified pace because of real life
demands and stuff. But I guess y'all know that song already.
Now it has been only now that I've taken a more in-depth
investigation into existing dark markets and their clientele.
Market research you could say. The field is usually dominated
by one huge site that then vanishes overnight, leaving two or three
of the bigger sites to compete for domination.
Of course, this is number one grief of the users, and therefore
a decentralized market could become a game-changer. But the
existing solutions are still in so rude state, that they have made absolutely
no impact into the landscape yet.
Besides, DNM users are people who are rather conservative
in their habits. If a decentralized market requires the user to hop through
lot of rings, it will not win their hearts. To put it bluntly, most users just
want to get some dope fast with the least amount of paranoia. They will not start to learn
multisig and encryption for the love of technology, but they want
them to be invisible and under the hood. All these facts have to be taken in
the account when designing MIL user interface.
Now that I've given up on implementing the Glass Onion in this version,
and gotten over the blues about that decision, I have slowly warmed to a thought of contacting
some virtual private networks (VPN) to become vendors or at least accepting
MIL for their use. I think this is a very reasonable way for starting to get some real
practical uses for the fine tech we already have, and it would enhance the users privacy even
more.
That's all for now.. hey it's saturday night, let's all go rollerskating!
Yarko
