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Wired has quite a long piece on Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht [1], definitely a good read. [1] https://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-untold-story/ https://www.
by olieidel 9y ago
Wired has quite a long piece on Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht [1], definitely a good read.
[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-untold-story/ https://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-untold-story/
- mirimir 9y agoI've read other Wired coverage that was decent, but this article is horrible. > Silk Road was hidden in the so-called dark web, a part of the Internet that’s invisible to search engines like Google. That's not true. I've had a few onions that Google indexed, via various tor2web proxies. > To access Silk Road you needed special cryptographic software. OK, that's technically correct. But why not just say "Tor"? > Combining an anonymous interface with traceless payments in the digital currency bitcoin, ... It wasn't anonymous, because you had to create an account, associate it with a Bitcoin address, and provide a mailing address to sellers. And Bitcoin payments are not at all "traceless", unless you mix adequately and use Tor.