Quote from: TheAltTrader on May 16, 2015, 10:01:52 PM

Chapter 3: The End of Bitcoin Tongue

Now now, lets not get carried away ....

Quote from: BarrenWuffet on May 16, 2015, 06:00:57 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...

+1

I agree with you 100%. While I could personally care less about the drug markets or anything of that sort. People should have the choice to buy whatever they want as long as they aren't hurting anyone else. I'm more interested to see businesses spawn out from grey markets. One example is the hackintosh industry.

Psystar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation) was a company that was selling open computers, basically custom rigs that ran dual booting OSX/Windows computers. Apple crushed them with a lawsuit and basically drove the industry back into the underground and DIY'ers.. The argument was that Apple's EULA prohibits the OSX operating system from being installed on hardware not approved by Apple. For someone who is building these types of systems Shadow offers a perfect solution to expand their reach. Most of these systems are sold on craigslist for cash because the risk is too high for merchants services, processors or banks to support this type of grey market business.

Apple uses the same internals as PCs and they also sell their operating system by itself just like Microsoft sells Windows. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard. Back in the 90s, Microsoft was hit with an anti-trust lawsuit by Netscape Navigator for including Internet Explorer with Windows OS.. Yet, somehow Apple is able to sell you an operating system and dictate what you can and can't install it on. According to this article http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/27/apple-mac-sales-q1-2015/ Apple sold 5.5 million macs in the 1st quarter of this year. About 11%-15% of their reported $80 billion revenue this quarter came from mac sales. Based on those numbers we could see the next Dell or Gateway computers spawn from SDC's ecoystem to evade the Eye of Sauron (Apple). This is just one type of industry that could benefit from the upcoming marketplace and the existing privacy technology. In my opinion, these types of grey market industries could end up being a serious driving factor behind the Shadow economy and SDC's marketcap.

(thumbs up) - always great to read your posts.