Something I wonder about often are drug dealers who got into selling during the early days of Silk Road 1.0.
There are guys out there who were moving thousand of dollars worth of product a day, and were doing it all with cheap bitcoins. At points when BC was under five bucks, it's easy to believe that some dealers could have been sitting on over a hundred-thousand coins.
My question is, what happened to those guys that decided to get out, but before they could cash out the coin sky rocketed to 30 and then 800?
Someone with 10,000 coins would suddenly be worth nearly 100 million dollars. All gained illegally.
What would you have done in that situation? You have tens of millions of dollars in Bitcoin, all of which you made by selling drugs over the internet. How would you get your money out without being arrested?
I would be fascinated if someone like Vice could get an interview with someone like this, but for obvious reasons guys like this are all in the wind.
Thoughts?
>>1302019
They didnt really report on it but the FBI and DEA got most the major sellers on there. Its the reason they took so long to actually arrest DPR after they found out who he was because they didnt want to spook the other sellers they were after. It was not the largest online drug bust ever but it was a solid win for the DEA. They even got spXTacy from what I hear. It was dumb as hell for DPR2 to open SR so soon after the first one was busted. These guys all thought they were invincible and untraceable. Silk road was a fucking amateur shitshow for the most part.
Darn. That makes sense.
I really did enjoy the FBI perpetuating the whole "Well shit! This encryption stuff is just too tough to crack!" myth, all while quietly documenting the info on as many drug and cp pushers as they could manage.
Just another case of people having too much faith in technology and not enough faith in the tenacity of federal officials.
>>1302057
You're wrong. "Encryption" is safe, and FBI/NSA still can't crack AES. The error comes from the human : Silk Road was really badly designed and DPR wasn't careful.
>>1302019
Cash it all out, claim it was online gambling winnings, pay 40% tax on it, have $60mil clean money
>>1302082
Encryption is too safe for FBI/NSA
Global surveillance is counter-encryption
>>1302133
Funny this reminds of one of the first stocks I invested in when I was 10 years old; electronic gaming chips that were uniquely identifiable and traceable within a casino - the company fizzled out for an obscure reason which shows anti laundering wasn't somehow a priority at the time
>>1302138
lol you shitbags talk about the deepweb as something mystical.
i had sites that were totally unaccesible for anyone else nothing gets deeper than that.
it's all a fucking joke
>>1303690
thats obivously a joke image
