Quote from: Limetless on August 18, 2012, 04:04 amI would have to respectfully disagree Pine. If another market had emerged at the same time as Silk Road and been pushed by someone like DPR in the same way then yes, it is possible. However because no such market emerged and because of the amount of time and the amount of success SR has had it would now he impossible to compete really. Look at BMR which has really the same sort of structure as SR and even free accounts which should attract more vendors because it involves less start-up costs but yet it does not? Why? Because there is no need to go to another because SR has it all already. Talking strictly non-private market-places here by the way, not the private scene.Lim, the people who are running the Black Market Reloaded would be out with forks if it were raining soup, so I wouldn't take too much from their failure to capitalize correctly.I can think of at least ten different things that the Silk Road does not do, but which would have drastic impacts on business, scammer rates, interception rates, vendor quality and so forth, I just don't post them all because it would look presumptuous and I like to keep the best ideas to myself.It's not just about competing with the business that SR currently transacts, there are entire spheres of potential development that SR doesn't address. This isn't the fault of SR, you would have to completely change everything, not an appealing proposition for an already successful business. But for new start-ups? Yes, absolutely.One tiny example is that we could develop a new kind of market for the darknet, one that is relatively rare in the clearnet, but very useful for our purposes. That's a predication market. A subscription to the data from a predication market for vendors, a source of work for newcomers to SR and other markets. It could be quite remarkable. How many businesses effectively have the Oracle of Delphi working for them? Not even some intelligence agencies have that kind of risk assessment capability.Anyway, let's just cordially agree to disagree. In any case, we are sure to see in the future what shall be the case, so we'll know sooner or later.