Quote from: Laughing Man on March 01, 2012, 05:37 amQuote from: pine on March 01, 2012, 05:34 amQuote from: imprint on March 01, 2012, 03:33 am@pine - yeah, nice little essay here! you know a lot of that kind of stuff? it's always interesting for me to read that kind of "insider info"... haha... ;) just one point: what kind of vendor should be able to shift 1000x+ orders/ month? second point: so, you say that they have a worldwide network, where they can compare fingerprints now... do you think, that they will also take fingerprints (from a "crime scene") from envelopes or parcels with drugs, when they get seized? ::)Your typical vendor is certainly not shifting 1000 orders, but the top ones are. I think the main bottleneck in the Silk Road is a reliable consistent supply, because you can just see from vendors talking that they are running out of product within weeks, even days. Throughput could be a lot higher than it is today. The people who get the most reliable source of product will eventually dominate their niche in the markets because they'll be able to undercut the competition with both quality assurance & price. Consistency itself is a great business plan.The reason a lot of vendors can't constantly stock product is the delay of getting paid, not usually supply issues.If people on the secondary market aren't getting paid soon enough and can't purchase more product as a result, then their real problem is their capital. i.e. they don't have any, or aren't putting it at risk.In any case, whether it's lack of capital or not, it leads to exactly the same result, inconsistent supply.