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After Silk Road 2.0 Bust, Eyes Turn To 'Untouchable' Decentralized Market

Posted by Soulskill on from the for-relatively-touchable-values-of-untouchable dept.

apexcp sends this article from The Daily Dot: Following a wave of Dark Net arrests that brought down the famous anonymous drug market Silk Road 2.0, all eyes have turned to a marketplace called OpenBazaar that is designed to be impossible to shut down. Described as the "next generation of uncensored trade" and a "safe untouchable marketplace," OpenBazaar is fundamentally different from all the online black markets that have come before it, because it is completely decentralized. If authorities acted against OpenBazaar users, they could arrest individuals, but the network would survive. "If you're thinking about OpenBazaar as Silk Road 3.0, you're thinking about it much too narrowly," said OpenBazaar operations lead Sam Patterson in an interview last night. "I actually think it's much more powerful as eCommerce 2.0."

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  1. Re:Yeah, that looks anonymous. by elephantdog · · Score: 4, Informative

    you haven't read anything about it have you? it'll have the option of running over TOR, plus most of the items sold will be legal items, nothing illegal about selling something to someone, it's just Ebay without the company charging you fees

  2. Re:Yeah, that looks anonymous. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're connecting directly to people's IP addresses! For fuck's sake, guys! Are you even trying to make it anonymous anymore?

    Sweet pickles. From the fucking article:

    OpenBazaar is open-source software that runs a peer-to-peer network that can be used with the Tor anonymizing network.

    With OpenBazaar, everyone hosts their own store and connectsâ"anonymously if they so chooseâ"to a larger ecosystem,