Quote from: georgem on November 07, 2014, 07:04:33 PM

Quote from: lucas2047 on November 07, 2014, 11:00:22 AM

I'm not blaming Darkcoin. I'm saying if you're anything of a decent human being you don't think a site selling Class A drugs to anyone and everyone is "good news". And certainly not good news because the value of your fucking cryptocurrency increases.

What's so hard to understand about that?

My 2 cents:

1) Much like the silkroad has taken all the drug related violence out of the business by giving users the possibility to buy drugs online,
(without the dangerous hassle of going to some psychotic guy waiting at a dark streetcorner in some fucked up neighborhood)
darkcoin can build on that success and help create the next step in this necessary process of truly helping drug addicts.

The possibility of ordering drugs online is a very positive thing, because it reduces violence, and creates more safety and reliability.
(You think some street dealer cares about his reputation? He'll try to abuse whoever is forced to deal with him)

I am 100% sure that many drugdealers HATE it that you can now buy drugs online anonymously from some remote part of the country.
Drug producers on the other hand welcome darkcoin, but not the dealers themselves.

I therefor imagine a world were this middleman called dealer disappears completely.

Isn't that just another middleman that abused his position for so many years and whose time to disappear has now come?
I have known some dealers in my life and they were all sociopathic pieces of shit.
It delights me to imagine a future where those assholes don't exist anymore.

Instead we now have a decentralized system that brings together drug producers and drug users. Isn't that brilliant?
Isn't that what this is all about? Enabling a free market while reducing violence?

So watch out when you read headlines like "Darkcoin used by drugdealers". Because that's exactly what is NOT happening anymore.

Drug prohibition is an inhuman thing anyway, and it fills me with joy that the mess created by stupid government laws is slowly being offset by decentralized technology.

2) If your money of choice can't be used to buy drugs or pay for sex etc... what good is it anyway?
And how exactly would such things be prevented? By having government approve every transaction first?
Money doesn't stink, and when it comes to price discovery all "sinful" (lol) morality goes out the window.

I for one welcome any "illegal" activities that use darkcoin and hope that in the near future some large porn producers start accepting darkcoin, it's the next logical step.

Disclaimer: I condemn any form of violence. So when I say "illegal" activities I include all the things that government arbitrarily declares illegal.
(how can it be illegal when those things don't represent a violent crime that creates a victim.)

Also, by eliminating the dealer you probably avoid many new addicts. Most people need some convincing to get into drugs. If there is no dealer to do that, some people will never start. You still have friends to teach/convince you, but dealers are more than just people that sell a product.

Today the Washington Post posted in favour of online drug markets... really didn't expect them to be taking that position!
How the FBI just made the world a more dangerous place by shutting down Silkroad 2.0 and a bunch of online drug markets:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/06/how-the-fbi-just-made-the-world-a-more-dangerous-place-by-shutting-down-silkroad-2-0-and-a-bunch-of-online-drug-markets/