Quote from: BlockchainBoss on May 14, 2015, 01:45:35 PM

Quote from: nond17 on May 14, 2015, 11:17:11 AM

Quote from: dadon on May 12, 2015, 12:47:15 AM

I seriously doubt the market will be full of shit, It hasn't happened to any of the previous darkmarkets so don't know why it would start now even some of the markets that are almost unknown have quality stuff, most people selling on the darkweb have fairly high standards when it comes to quality and purity.
But it needs to have some kind of system that removes items that people show no interest well would be nice if possible.
Or just have a separate section of the market for items that get little interest or attention and vendors with bad trust ratings so it's not cramping up the items that do get a lot of attention and keeps the dishonest vendors from the honest ones, sort of like a naughty corner for useless items and untrustworthy vendors, your not censoring the market just arranging it in a way that i don't have to see those items and vendors if i don't want to, because most products and vendors will be legit but we want to keep everything looking nice and clean.

The ShadowMarket will appeal to much more than traditional "darkmarket" users...

Libertarians, AnCaps & Agorists would LOVE the opportunity to be able to buy & sell goods on a completely secure, decentralized, anonymous, TAX-FREE market.

This is the Holy Grail of Agorism.

Counter-economics is basically the idea that it is preferable & more ethical to keep one's financial transactions in the grey market, so as to not be supporting governments through taxation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agorism Ideology

Agorism is considered a branch of, or a transition strategy for achieving, anarcho-capitalism, however Konkin characterized it as a form of left-libertarianism,.[2] Agorists generally consider themselves to be market anarchists. Agorists often oppose voting for political candidates and political reform. Instead, agorists stress the importance of alternative strategies rather than politics to achieve a free society. Agorists claim that we can achieve a free society more easily and sooner by employing such alternative methods as education, alternative currencies, entrepreneurship, self sufficiency, and most importantly "counter-economics".[1] Some agorists consider their message to be scientific because science is an appeal to reason, which they believe is only possible in a free market; these agorists argue that state-backed science is illegitimate, believing that it inherently involves an appeal to authority.[3]

http://agorism.info/

There are tons of Libertarians out there...

Great post, thanks for sharing.

These are the kinds of discussions I would like to see here (rather than memes and insults).

Emphasizing the libertarian slant of the deep web markets will attract more investors and market participants. As you mentioned above, there is a lot of potential here to reach a wide audience beyond the "Silk Road" crowd - despite that being a massively lucrative niche as the Vice article pointed out.

I'm looking forward to reading the cryptography review by Isidor Zeuner. Is there an ETA for this?

I dont believe an ETA was put on the review. I'm also looking forward to reading it but very understanding that these things take time.

More importantly, dem bips tho.