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Somebody in the comments of the article brought up a good point. What happens when the site gets shut down? As apparently is the case according to the comment a
by Posibyte 9y ago
Somebody in the comments of the article brought up a good point. What happens when the site gets shut down? As apparently is the case according to the comment author.
I know it's a trope, a huge joke and everything, but this seems like a perfect place to leave notes on the blockchain. It's something that can't be "cleaned" outside of the darknet, it's permanent, and supposedly impossible to forge a private key to manipulate one party's records. It would make it possible for customers to look back for the records of that wallet, or some tagged transactions to see a record of interactions to give credence to the reputation of that user.
It's a neat idea, removing enough anonymity in a world of the anonymous to establish trust, but not enough to establish a hard identity in order to carry reputation across the *net.
- hvindin 9y agoThis is why coin mixing services exist. Otherwise as soon as you cashed our your btc you would be obviously traceable to all your purchases.
- akvadrako 9y agoThere are meta sites (like Grams) that aggregate reviews from all the other marketplaces. Sure, blockchain would be more decentralized, but in this case what's easy is good enough.
- AlwaysBCoding 9y agoI think it would be interesting to build a reputation system like this on top of Ethereum, where each Ethereum address has a reputation associated with it and the darknet markets simply read that reputation into their UIs. That way even if the market gets shut down and loses their database, the vendor reputation system would still persist.