Where do you see all of this in the future?

Say 5 or 10 years down the road, how do you think DNMs will expand/change?


Comments


[17 Points] OldSchoolMethHead:

mabye the DEA/us gov will take over.? sell all the drugs that they seize.

they,ll bust ya w/drugs, an sell em back to ya. idk lol whoa this mxe stuff....


[11 Points] speedlimp:

It's possible, in the very near future, using TOR and TAILS will be illegal - with the further possibility of using personal VPNs and even encryption software being illegal also. I imagine that corporations will still be able to use VPNs and GPG but they will have to apply for a license that will be issued by the government. However, the corporation will probably have to share their keys with the government body in case an employee plans to threaten national security. This will be implemented by ISPs, if a user is seen connecting to an unauthorized (or rather unknown) service, or transmitting encrypted data, their account will be frozen pending further investigation. Of course this will be done to protect a nations citizenship in the name of "National Security".

The argument will be that the safety concerns of a nation against a perceived terrorist threat far out weigh the rights of an individual to electronic privacy. It will most likely be trialed in a small FVEY country first and if a revolt or immense public back lash does not occur it will be propagated through out the rest of the FVEY countries. This part is already happening, though it's still in its infancy: see metadata retention laws for Canada, NZ and Australia.

Bitcoin and other crypto currencies will theoretically be destroyed if such measures become a reality.

Technical users and businesses alike, will abandon the internet as we currently know it and flock en masse towards decentralized networks. This will have a negative effect on the current world economy. Legal and illegal market places will flourish in the decentralized network for sometime and Bitcoin will be the currency of choice.

Darknets will never be stopped. No matter what laws and surveillance tactics are put in place.

Just my thoughts.

Edit: Fixed a few things up - I fail at English.


[4 Points] None:

This is the forefront of a revolution in many aspects. My imagination can and will run wild, but only time will tell where this takes us.


[5 Points] zVape:

I hope I live to see a instant - transport delivery system.


[4 Points] CurtisLOAF:

Shipping via mail will transform into localized dead drops


[3 Points] Theeconomist1:

Fortunately the black market has always found ways to be a step ahead of LE. One of the marvels of black markets is how quickly they respond to change. They have to if they want to survive. History shows that drugs will get to people who want it - legal or not. From boot legging until today, smugglers are a creative, entrepreneurial bunch. It's hard to predict where the DNMs will be in any appreciable amount of time simply bc technology changes at a wicked clip. I do know that the DNMs will utilize every technological break through and will adapt given the available technology. Maybe it'll be molecular printing - the DNMs selling molecular data for easy printing. Maybe drone technology. It can and will adapt bc it's lubricated by the most addictive drug known to man - money.


[3 Points] Trappy_Pandora:

I think that the quality of the code available for markets will increase exponentially. Anyone with the money and a few servers will be able to host their own markets. Anyone with money and sense will externally host their market.

Vendors will have to specialize more, as the clients decentralize. Making more profit off of fewer transactions will be the name of the game. Markets won't be able to charge very much of a fee, so their administration will be poor and of poor quality.

Imagine today, but instead of the risk of a market revealing its IP, the risk is its market admins facebook friending all their top vendors will be greater than ever before.


[3 Points] thebullseye007:

What would you guys LIKE to happen? Molecular 3D printer sounds a little expensive right now. I would like a better escrow system, a very own dnm package tracking system and a larger team of testers to determine dosage and purity.


[3 Points] loveisrealnfa:

The USA will legalize drugs and they will deliver by usps. No joke


[2 Points] enigma2050:

i think there will be a next generation of markets, a DNM 2.0 if you will that will bring it into the mainstream. right now it's too confusing and unknown for the average person to deal with, and feels sketchy if you don't educate yourself on the right places to look.
i'm talking 5 years or less here, i think (hope) there will be more user friendly version of tor, of bitcoin, of PGP, in a streamlined way that makes it easy, and a sleek new marketplace that deals only in drugs and has no listings for the sketchiest ones or for carding, hacker shit, or weapons. an amazon for drugs. the way the war on drugs is going i could really see this happening.


[2 Points] None:

Mouls are digging tunnels in the ground to get to the customers location. The con will be you will need some tight opsec to get the justification of calling your house manager because your floor is falling apart.


[2 Points] Spoogly:

I'm planning on commandeering some of the Amazon delivery drones by throwing a net over them and then turning them into GPS tracking drug drop drones, so you can get your oz of weed on the go. So hopefully in 5-10 years, amazon has their flight permits in order.


[1 Points] LedLevee:

Hopefully OpenBazaar.

Really hopefully shit's legal.