Quote from: anarcho47 on May 05, 2012, 02:56 amwhat would a poor fellow like me, who doesn't consume any drug under the sun, and instead opts to use his connects to feed his family, do on such a site? I have no use for substance if it can't be traded for a universal medium of exchange and account, because I don't do them. This is strictly business for me, which is why i've been able to vend on here for almost a year and stand proud about being 100% honest. I just don't see it being the same if I were a seller and a consumer.He's right HP, I mean in the mainstream every so often a guy comes along and reinvents the barter system as a new concept, but it ain't. Ever. It's like the equivalent of the perennially occurring perpetual motion machine for engineers, only it's for economists. (Subtopic: Actually come to think of it, there's lots of curious mirage-ideas like this, there is cold fusion and the 'grand unified theory' for physicists, practical transmutation of the elements for chemists (alchemy). Do you ever get the sense that humanity is banging it's head on a door, unable to open it? :D)Don't get me wrong, I appreciate you're trying to think outside the box, making a mistake like the above is a classic sign of it, I wish more people would make an attempt, but it's a regressive step on many economic levels, not to mention the fact that you've just increased the probability of vendors getting caught and created a structure that means way more buyers would be penalized as drug traffickers. I mean, from a practical point of view, I wouldn't trust the average buyer to have the right mental framework to take packaging seriously e.g. things like vacuum packing, gloves etc. In fact we know this because people have been using the mail for transport for about 100 years, and judging from the frankly hilarious reports we receive they are terrible at it.A medium of exchange is a brilliant idea despite its flaws and communists harping on and on about contradictions (I'm pretty sure those guys live in the mother of all echo chambers).--I suggest you read Tradecraft: A Primer, it's on the forums with the [intel] tag if you search through them. It's a really well thought out essay into how to approach difficult problems and analyze them, I'm sure you'll start getting practical ideas about stuff even while you're just reading it.--So; it seems to me that question is something like:"What is the optimal way for vendors to anonymously receive payments?"Then you look at the nouns and verbs in that question and break it down like so: ->OptimalVendorAnonymousReceivePayments--You got to ask yourself, what do those words *really* mean? That always helps me think out of the box and impress on me what the fundamental shape of the problem is. Believe me, you can waste enormous amounts of time doing sweet fuck all whilst imagining you're working on the problem, confuse quantity of effort with quality of results. I do it all the time, and when it happens I have to stop what I'm doing and start over again and think more about the question, this happens at least once when trying to solve the problem.btw: In a related note, I'm still working on the cryptographic hashing system. I did a ton of research and then got nowhere, the code just fell to pieces because I thought I knew what I was doing but it turned out I didn't, so I am starting over again from scratch. It has to be done just right, almost axiomatic, otherwise there will be consequences. Onward and upward!