Quote from: Shannon on August 04, 2012, 04:31 amyou have to remember that tor and gpg usage among the drug scene is a relatively recent phenomenon though, until a couple years ago you needed to have undergrad-level cs knowledge to set up tor for yourself and almost nobody used gpg. bitcoin is even more recent, really nobody used it before sr (the killer app of bitcoin) took off. even today, many of the largest traders keep it old school and don't mess with gpg btc or fde, just cash in the mail, jabber+otr, and maybe tor or a vpn. don't even start about drug sites' security, shit, i'm aware of a bulk-type sourcing forum that's active now and hosted on proboards.com!Natural Selection is ultimately going to bring the market around to our way of thinking. Might be slow, but I think we're in at the ground floor of an experiment that is going to rise and rise beyond nearly anybody's belief. The rules of the game have completely changed suddenly, it's just going to take the scene and LE a while to realize the full implications of an independent financial network, strong cryptography and real anonymity. Not one killer app, but 3 killer apps with synergistic qualities. This is the holy Trinity of economic growth, we're not going to ever experience a recession here within our lifetimes.This is the industrial revolution of the black market. The black market was not substantively structurally different from 1700 to 2000. Contracts to generate trust and cooperative behaviors were never possible in RL. Here they are thanks to advanced cryptography. And that will make all the difference.I'm aware that this might sound like hyperbole, but I don't think it is. I think the above is just a statement of fact.