The future of the TOR & market place.

I would like to hear what YOU think the future of tor, dark markets and the online drug trade is going to be. You being the end user only could have the true answer. I'm hoping its now the proverbial VHS tape compared to the future version Of darknets which would be bluray. Just an analogy. Let the absurdity begin :


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[9 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

I think that the credibility gap between established vendors and scammers will become unspannable. a 3 months-old vendor can't compete with a 3 YEAR old vendor, so the fake prices will be lowered and lowered in desparation.

Already, the profiles and listings of scammers are more likely to copy those of successful scammers than vendors - its really easy to tell the difference nowadays. I think so, anyhow. They hardly mention the drugs.

I think DNMs are the future, the money now is insignificant to what it will be. yet most vendors trade in their share of the future for dishonest money now. When the future is here, they will be bellyaching because they cashed-in their share of it.

In countries like the UK, the online drug economy will significant, and mainly retail. Why? Because you receive your drugs in the post tomorrow morning.

In the US, the vendors will be wholesalers, and the customers will be local retailers, "flipping" acid, weed and MDMA. You want drugs THIS week.

I invisage owner-less "robot" marketplaces with a fixed expiry date, automatically rebooting once a week, in which consortiums of users can buy like software and govern using any model - a bit like countries. escrow disputes will be decided by 3 users selected from a pool of volunteers, in return for the 5% commission on that trade.

decentralized, with no owner to bust, and not carrying on and on until failure. Competing like countries or italian city states with survival of the fittest.

no other cryptocurrency will grow in bitcoin's shade, but now that satoshi has been dead for a year and people are starting to cotton-on, we will see that decebtralized = arguements about direction.

bitcoin used to be centralized around what "satoshi" (Hal Finney) thought.

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/hal-finney/

Bitcoin's price was being artificially suppressed by MTGOX's owner laundering 1.2 million btc. He was re-arrested a week ago, and bitcoin is floating to its natural level.


[3 Points] MDMangel:

In Russia, DNM forks you.


[2 Points] octomarvel:

I think it's gonna be the same, bar the obvious few security updates here n there.

I mean, honestly guys, think about it. How many of your friends do drugs? Hopefully quite a few. Now how many of those friends, percentage wise, know how to order off the DNMs? I'm guessing well under 50%, if any at all. When you think of how drugs are bought and sold, over the years we haven't evolved as much as legal retail markets due to the secrecy n illegality of it all. So while Amazon might start having drone deliveries, abraxas n nucleus will not due to them having to constantly cover their asses.

Technological advances are usually born out of humanities laziness, and when doing illegal activities, the lazy become low hanging fruit. I feel like we are going to come to a point where society has to deal with the absurdities of drug laws and the drug trade, but that's soooooo far off coz humans suck. I'm not saying we shouldn't feel ambitious about the future, but just lets not get our hopes up too high coz disappointment is a prison sentence.

Also, I mean, how far in the future are we talking here? Coz five years ago, all this shit was just starting. In another five years we will see markets exit scam and others with their owners arrested. It's inevitable. Who knows, perhaps organised crime will decide to play a more central role towards the markets? A triad market perhaps?

I don't know why but I have high hopes for just ONE country to say "fuck the international war on drugs, everything is now legal". I pray that I'm still alive to become president of that country....or at very least see it thru tears of joy.

PS - excuse the rant. I'm pretty high. =)


[1 Points] jadenpls:

Better drugs, perhaps on a decentralised network like /r/openBazaar, with all transactions disputed objectively by a third party.


[1 Points] Dabblin:

I've said this before; shipping methods by use of drone or multicopter. The FAA already has regulations for flying copters, like under 400 feet, within sight, and not near an airport. I saw somewhere that it's inevitable for an airtraffic control protocol at some point for drones.

So amazon is already doing it on a small scale, once they get a few years under their belt as technology increases, other commercial shipping companies will do the same, and your dnm vendor might run his own shipping company

Vendor_BBMC made a really good post, +1. Other than that i feel that in 5-10 years commercial drone shipping companies will be at least as robust as current military drones. I commercial drone in ten years will probably be able to fly hundreds of miles making multiple stops.


[1 Points] Febbraio2468:

We must move Forward, Not backwards, Upwards, not forward and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!


[1 Points] The_Madhouse:

I think they will stay relatively the same until the government cracks down and forces us to adapt. But even then a host who is in a liberal could try like Sweden could run a market and if caught get sentences to 10 or 15 yrs. So in the US the government may be able to Crack down by blatantly violating our rights but the world is to big. As soon as quantum computers come to reality then tor will be dead overnight. A new quantum resilient etqork will need to be made but outpacing the government in that area will be hard. The future lies outside US control


[0 Points] SlappySpanBank:

You'll be able to buy drugs just like weed and liquor in 10 years. Well the drugs we have today will be trash compared to the drugs in 10 years. They'll probably have drugs that will let you literally fly around.