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OpenBazaar, Born of an Effort To Build the Next Silk Road, Raises $1 Million
Patrick O'Neill writes: After the fall of Silk Road, Amir Taaki built DarkMarket in an effort to offer a decentralized and "untouchable" market alternative. That's grown into OpenBazaar, a "censorship-resistant" protocol that just raised $1 million from venture capital firms Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, as well as angel investor William Mougayar through the company OB1, which will now do core development on the software.
The stupid feds will never figure this one out! - Dread Pirate Roberts
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
Do you think you're special enough that you can use a monospace font? Get back in the short bus!
I'm going to guess that you think you are super smart and you don't work for the government. Am I close?
If you think someone isn't free to have a different definition of "freedom" you may be a tyrant.
I was going to place him as a maverick private investigator who had to quit the force after hitting a superior officer/refusing to lie to protect a corrupt colleague, and is now a divorced loner with a drink problem and a fondness for some obscure type of music. The police come to him when a particularly difficult crime has them baffled, probably involving a locked room, the solution to which requires a couple of puns, and a working knowledge of Ancient Sumerian.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it