I wish we still had someone like the old DPR.

"Silk Road is about something much bigger than thumbing your nose at the man and getting your drugs anyway. It's about taking back our liberty and our dignity and demanding justice."

-Ross Ulbricht, 4/29/2012

Currently, it seems as if this view has died out. It seems like every person here doesn't care about the revolution that is this movement. I wish we still had someone like Ross that could represent us as revolutionaries as we truly are, not just drug users. I call on all of you to read old forum posts by DPR, of which you can find many here. I call on you to read the works of Murray Rothbard and others within the anarcho-capitalism/libertarian/agorism faction to discover the inspirations Ross had for founding Silk Road.

I call on you to bring forth the best to represent us. Be strong. Show that we are much more than what we appear to be on the surface. The time is now to take back what is ours.


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[16 Points] deletethislol:

Lots of people care about that kind of stuff, it's just bad opsec to chatter endlessly about it because your online ideas can link you to your actual identity. Look at how LE linked Ross to DPR through his LinkedIn profile, which was pretty much verbatim to things DPR said.

And honestly over-idealistic writing like this screams narc to me.

Really if you're into this kind of stuff go post on anarcho-capitalist forums and reading groups and stuff...


[7 Points] fuckaye:

It's not revolutionary, it's convenient.


[3 Points] sheeproadreloaded2:

People need to stop buying into this "Our movement needs you to not complain when we rob you, together we will prevail" bullshit which is still the hallmark of the disastrous Silk Road franchise. It got busted in September, nearly robbed us and changed its mind at christmas, then robbed us and blamed somebody else on valentines day. The only thing left that it hasn't done is catch fire.

DPR didn't know when to stop. All it has now is a name that gullible drug tourists recognize. Its the Hard Rock Cafe of the darknet, teenagers posing next to a lifesize cutout of Silvester Stallone before buying an overpriced burger and having his money belt stolen by two guys on a moped.

The darknet marketplace owner who I will celebrate will be the first one who shuts down in an orderly fashion and retires.

Its quite bad when they rob us, like Sheepmarketplace, but the worst thing is if as marketplace gets busted. People get arrested, plus you still lose your bitcoins.

Everybody knows what a shop is like. Darknetmarkets should be as much like a shop as possible, and run for no more than a year. The pressures of a global 24 hour business on the darknet, with all its intrigue makes the C++ programmer at his computer at home cracking up after 3 months. I think some of them rob us just to get a day off.

The first Silk Road was an awful site to use. The good thing about it was that they didn't tolerate scammers or any nonsense.

That quote is from DPR I think, not Ross. If it can be directly ascribed to him, he may as well just admit he was running Silk Road when his trial starts.


[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] Insipid_Pedantry:

As much as some of his ideas are worthy of mass adoption, there is a very simple reason there hasn't been "someone" like him since, because of the simple adage, fuck with the bull you get the horns. I'm sure there are many admins and people running the various DNMs out there who share similar views to DPR, but they aren't going to be vocal or public about airing those views in connection with their market personas, because well that's why the Feds got him, same reason they got Gotti, because the authorities do not like having a nose thumbed at them.


[1 Points] throwawayaccountgay:

It's all about the money and always will be. All that views stuff and sticking it to the man is just to make markets appeal more.


[0 Points] skinny-santa:

I wish the old DPR didn't try to have people murdered...


[-1 Points] thenine9:

Nice try, head of current fed DNM investigation trying to figure out where to even start since you don't even know who the fuck is running things now.