Silk Road 2.0 hacked through malleability, ~4000 BTC STOLEN

[Gamer67]

You are doing it wrong. It goes on the top of your head.

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[WorldWideBTC]

I imagine that he got scared that he would be caught by the feds, so instead of taking the profit over time and risking his ass, he decided that he was much safer just stealing the funds all at once.

The admin is continuing to operate the site and diverting the site's commission to pay everyone back.

The site rakes in millions of $ worth of BTC per month in commission.  Nobody in their right mind would jeopardize that income for a measly 4000BTC.

Nobody in their right mind would risk a mandatory minimum life sentence to deal drugs for any amount of money.

They get paid out of the fee for listings being bought, regardless of what those listings are. If someone sells a pair of shoes on SR, the site gets paid a fee. The problem is that the admins see that silly money being tossed around and choose to get involved in the illicit sale of illegal material.

But to blanket SR admins with "They are drug dealers" isn't accurate at all. If I ran a shadow market, I wouldn't give two damns what people were selling. And I sure wouldn't be a drug dealer. I would just take my fee for each listing, not know or care what it was for, and be happy to provide a free market for ANY type of goods.

[darkmule]

But to blanket SR admins with "They are drug dealers" isn't accurate at all. If I ran a shadow market, I wouldn't give two damns what people were selling. And I sure wouldn't be a drug dealer. I would just take my fee for each listing, not know or care what it was for, and be happy to provide a free market for ANY type of goods.

I'm sure anyone from SR2/3/4/5/whatever will raise similar arguments if they're ever in front of a jury.  The track record of success of such arguments is pretty mixed, and the penalties draconian when they lose.

[frito]

This hack was possible because of a
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I think it got stolen coz they/him/she got hold of the private key/s to the wallet/s
coz the server(nutin to do with BTC net) security hole. Or it was simply the Admin 2.0.

Hope u did not lose too much coke money.

[darkmule]

This hack was possible because of

morons.

FIFY.

[Vitamin]

Drug dealers really aren't the people you want to owe money to.  I'd be sweating to if I was that little punk.

Have fun 6 feet under, idiot.

[guybrushthreepwood]

But to blanket SR admins with "They are drug dealers" isn't accurate at all. If I ran a shadow market, I wouldn't give two damns what people were selling. And I sure wouldn't be a drug dealer. I would just take my fee for each listing, not know or care what it was for, and be happy to provide a free market for ANY type of goods.

I'm sure anyone from SR2/3/4/5/whatever will raise similar arguments if they're ever in front of a jury.  The track record of success of such arguments is pretty mixed, and the penalties draconian when they lose.

I wouldn't say they're drug dealers, but they're certainly facilitating sales and profiting from it.

[darkmule]

I wouldn't say they're drug dealers, but they're certainly facilitating sales and profiting from it.

It's one of those distinctions very few people in the real world will care about.  It reminds me of Walt in Breaking Bad insisting that he was a drug "manufacturer" and not a dealer as if this were a moral or even legal distinction.