[2015-06-10] IBT: DarkNet Drug Sales Using Btc Booming After Fall Of Silk Road

[Grand_Voyageur]

Dark Net Drug Sales Using Bitcoins Are Booming After Fall Of Silk Road Marketplace

Your drug dealer is moving to the dark Web. That part of the Internet, inaccessible to standard Web browsers and made famous (or infamous) by the Silk Road marketplace, has essentially become a shopping district for addicts around the world.

That's according to the 2015 Global Drug Survey, which polled 100,000 people and found a growing number are buying illegal drugs online through clandestine marketplaces that trade in bitcoins. Of those polled, 23 percent said they bought drugs online for the first time in 2014. That's up from 13 percent a year ago.

This increase comes despite the October 2013 shutdown of the Silk Road drug marketplace and the very public arrest of founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on May 29.

Full story: http://www.ibtimes.com/dark-net-drug-sales-using-bitcoins-are-booming-after-fall-silk-road-marketplace-1960833

[bryant.coleman]

People coveniently tend to forget that the few tens of thousands who buy their drugs through various online dark markets represents only a small fraction of the millions of drug users world wide. Right now, less than 1% of the drug users buy their drugs online. But as the CIA and the FBI churn out more and more negative propaganda against the Bitcoin, more of these people will become aware of dark markets and will consider buying their drugs from there.

[Pro_Crypto_Marty]

Exactly. It's a wonder that many haven't figured out yet that giving a lot of press to something they want to suppress will only work to generate interest in it.

I suppose that politicians don't really care about the long run. They know that bad press for something they oppose will make them popular now. It doesn't matter to them that the same opposition will work against them later on.

[MUFC]

People coveniently tend to forget that the few tens of thousands who buy their drugs through various online dark markets represents only a small fraction of the millions of drug users world wide. Right now, less than 1% of the drug users buy their drugs online. But as the CIA and the FBI churn out more and more negative propaganda against the Bitcoin, more of these people will become aware of dark markets and will consider buying their drugs from there.

Yup. As time goes on more and more people will flock to dakrnet markets as they'll get more popular and even safer. With movies and documentaries and plenty of mainstream media mentions it's only serving as free advertising. People clearly want their drugs and they're going to get them any way they can and for most darknet markets are the safest and easiest ways to facilitate this.

[bryant.coleman]

Yup. As time goes on more and more people will flock to dakrnet markets as they'll get more popular and even safer. With movies and documentaries and plenty of mainstream media mentions it's only serving as free advertising. People clearly want their drugs and they're going to get them any way they can and for most darknet markets are the safest and easiest ways to facilitate this.

The supply will exist as long as the demand is there. If the FBI guys think that they have won the "war against drugs" by arresting Ross Ullbricht and Blake Benthall, they are wrong. Now the Dark Market admins will be more careful and innovative, and they will never repeat the mistakes committed by Blake and Ross.

[Rude Boy]

And there exists few deepweb drug markets, other than silkroad. At least, they escaped without capture by red hand.


~Rude Boy

[Patton000]

Dark Net Drug Sales Using Bitcoins Are Booming After Fall Of Silk Road Marketplace

Your drug dealer is moving to the dark Web. That part of the Internet, inaccessible to standard Web browsers and made famous (or infamous) by the Silk Road marketplace, has essentially become a shopping district for addicts around the world.

That's according to the 2015 Global Drug Survey, which polled 100,000 people and found a growing number are buying illegal drugs online through clandestine marketplaces that trade in bitcoins. Of those polled, 23 percent said they bought drugs online for the first time in 2014. That's up from 13 percent a year ago.

This increase comes despite the October 2013 shutdown of the Silk Road drug marketplace and the very public arrest of founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on May 29.

Full story: http://www.ibtimes.com/dark-net-drug-sales-using-bitcoins-are-booming-after-fall-silk-road-marketplace-1960833

IMO the publicity did encourage people to do that (I think allot of them though this is not real until the growing publicity that the site was delivering drugs).