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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.
Do you think you're special enough that you can use a monospace font? Get back in the short bus!
I am not a dumbass. I speak for those that don't know certain things are even possible. Those that use SilkRoad /OpenBazzare probably already know about these things, or at least should. Your Grandma doesn't.
Yes, you can (and should) use a new wallet every transaction, by default.
Yes, you can wash your currency between transfers to new wallets, and probably should do that too.
You and I are both well versed in these things, but most people are not.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Come to Washington. All the pot sold in the legal recreational marijuana shops is grown here. Smoke all you want, no Mexican kingpin was enriched, and no innocent person shot.
The ONLY reason there is violence associated with the manufacture and distribution of pot in other places, is because it is illegal. That leaves the market only to criminals, and criminals use violence as part of their business plan. When was the last time the CEOs of Coors and Budweiser got in a shoot out with each other?
The problem with drug gangs could be eliminated immediately by legalizing drugs.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good