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Never, ever, ever trust anyone or anything that suddenly reappears after a major bust by the authorities. NEVER. Move on.

• malandrew 13y ago
  One would think that they'd start moving to technologies that are decentralized using technologies such as distributed hash tables. This puts the onus on the users to have a client app that helps host the transaction system for everyone else. The clients would openly share the buy and sell orders and then communication would moved to an encrypted channel that supports perfect forward secrecy. The only part that ostensibly needs to be centralized is a ledger maintaining the reputation tied to some pseudonym. i.e. the identity of DPR is passed along to all the users of the site collectively.
  • jes5199 13y ago
    Yes, but those systems don't exist yet, and the cost of setting up a Rails app hidden inside Tor is much lower.
  • nazgulnarsil 13y ago
    You don't need the ledger to be centralized either. A bitcoin style blockchain stores transaction histories tied to a specific set of keys/wallets. In the future I imagine some sort of reputation system will be maintained using this.
    • Jonovono 13y ago
      Ya. Wouldn't it just have to be something like they are doing with Namecoin (decentralised DNS)