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>The forfeiture complaint is considerably more blunt about the feds' position that the entire Silk Road enterprise is inherently criminal What a bunch of horse

>The forfeiture complaint is considerably more blunt about the feds' position that the entire Silk Road enterprise is inherently criminal What a bunch of horseshit on part of the feds, while the market was overwhelmingly populated with drugs I know for a fact that there were sellers who only sold things like laptops, flash drives pre-loaded with anonymity software, and DVDs of tails and such.

justinsb 13y ago
Edit: intslack has fixed the quotation :-) What are you quoting from?
- tjbiddle 13y ago
  I don't think it's a direct quote, I couldn't find it - but I'm assuming he's speaking of the fact that the feds are treating all transactions as criminal.
- deleted 13y ago
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joshmn 13y ago
Couldn't someone open up a suit against the feds to claim their stolen BTC if this was the case? Sure, they'd need a whole lot of evidence, but like you said, there were some 'legit' sellers.
- justinsb 13y ago
  I bet "the feds" will happily return the money of any seller that is willing to provide them the complete records of their customers, as it would probably give them a whole bunch of real-world identities that they could then use to start figuring out who everyone is.
- bsullivan01 13y ago
  Sure you can, if you have a few million dollars under your mattress for lawyer fees. And if you're squeaky clean because IRS and every alphabet agency might come after you. So you have rights. Maybe. Did they declare any BTC coin gains on their 1040? If not, case closed.
  - malandrew 13y ago
    If you only operated in 2013, you still have until April 2014 to file.
xerula 13y ago
Also arts and crafts, personalized poetry and short stories, foodstuffs, homemade clothing...
camus 13y ago
Yeah right, things people could sold on ebay or amazon or else easily ... Come on, you dont use SilkRoad to sell laptops or flash drives unless they are stolen.
ihsw 13y ago
Yes, that's part of their plan though. Not only will they be able to enrich themselves from unilaterally seizing the assets of Silk Road, but they are also deterring others from selling products on questionable marketplaces. It's quite insidious. Their argument is as such: You shouldn't have been selling legitimate products on Silk Road to begin with, since Silk Road is an illegitimate storefront.

justinsb 13y ago

Edit: intslack has fixed the quotation :-) What are you quoting from?

tjbiddle 13y ago
I don't think it's a direct quote, I couldn't find it - but I'm assuming he's speaking of the fact that the feds are treating all transactions as criminal.
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joshmn 13y ago

Couldn't someone open up a suit against the feds to claim their stolen BTC if this was the case? Sure, they'd need a whole lot of evidence, but like you said, there were some 'legit' sellers.

justinsb 13y ago
I bet "the feds" will happily return the money of any seller that is willing to provide them the complete records of their customers, as it would probably give them a whole bunch of real-world identities that they could then use to start figuring out who everyone is.
bsullivan01 13y ago
Sure you can, if you have a few million dollars under your mattress for lawyer fees. And if you're squeaky clean because IRS and every alphabet agency might come after you. So you have rights. Maybe. Did they declare any BTC coin gains on their 1040? If not, case closed.
- malandrew 13y ago
  If you only operated in 2013, you still have until April 2014 to file.

xerula 13y ago

Also arts and crafts, personalized poetry and short stories, foodstuffs, homemade clothing...

camus 13y ago

Yeah right, things people could sold on ebay or amazon or else easily ... Come on, you dont use SilkRoad to sell laptops or flash drives unless they are stolen.

ihsw 13y ago

Yes, that's part of their plan though. Not only will they be able to enrich themselves from unilaterally seizing the assets of Silk Road, but they are also deterring others from selling products on questionable marketplaces. It's quite insidious. Their argument is as such: You shouldn't have been selling legitimate products on Silk Road to begin with, since Silk Road is an illegitimate storefront.