Silk Road forums
Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: moonparty on October 06, 2013, 10:40 am
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I like that both bitcoin and bittorrent work through decentralized peer-to-peer approaches.
This more-or-less removes the possibility of the feds targeting one person or one server.
I can't conceive of how to turn something like a p2p network into a market place ... but if enough people can figure out Tor and BitCoin and PGP to make SilkRoad work, then I think people can figure out a way to make a p2p underground market work.
If the community is running the site off of their own volunteered computers, and the community is geared towards quality assurance and outing fakes, there could be enough fail safes to ensure community standards, and not let it become an LE honeypot. Perhaps all LE could do is send malware into the system, which we've already seen with Tor.
With Peer to Peer, people are just sharing data, like movies or bitcoin - I'm not sure how that translates into revealing postal info and securing goods in real life.
But then I'd have said the same thing about SilkRoad - "even on Tor I don't see how you could securely reveal your address and have faith that items would arrive at your door." But I was clearly wrong, so perhaps some smart people are already engineering a p2p marketplace, or already have?