The rise & fall of Silk Road- fascinating article

[PositiveHAL]

I came across this short article and thought I'd share it. It's really well written and very interesting

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/

[Strontium Dawg]

I spent an hour or so reading this yesterday when I was bored at work, a very good piece.

[Visceral420]

Great read!

[Getafix]

Great read, thanks ND.

[zelly]

I spent an hour or so reading this

i pdf'd to read later, graphics & all

[Evil Genius]

Spent hours reading that yesterday little by little whenever I found the time. One of the best articles I read in a long time. Did anyone read he was growing magic mushrooms to sell them in order to get the Silk Road going? Seems like a post at the shroomery might have helped to break his neck.

Edited June 26, 2015 by Evil Genius

[ThunderIdeal]

it reminds me that even though 100 others have taken the place of silk road, DPR was a luminary and barely any attempts have been made to fill those shoes. perhaps it's for the best. hidden markets don't need ideology so much as resilience and just enough integrity.

[Strontium Dawg]

I loved the line about governments and coercion due to their "monopoly on violence".

[theuserformallyknownasd00d]

Where'd my arvo go!!? And now I've got no2 to read!

[mushfun]

Reads like a movie.

[baghdatis]

hours you say? ill give it a shot.

it really does draw you into the story

He looked at the busted door and thought,Man, that thing was unlocked

[baghdatis]

Reads like a movie.

finished reading it

i think it would make a good film, would be much better then that Facebook one.

aww yeah, one more thing, Mark Force your a dirty bastard

[Evil Genius]

lol, it´s funny you mention the Facebook movie because I thought David Fincher would make a great movie out of this.

[baghdatis]

lol, it´s funny you mention the Facebook movie because I thought David Fincher would make a great movie out of this.

David Fincher , i had to google him

didn't care much for the (The Social Network) i don't even have a Facebook account!, but (fight club) is one of my fav's (Seven) is a top film also.

Seriously though, I'm not joking, i honestly believe it would be an interesting film.

After reading the link at wired.com (SHOUT OUT 2 NegativeDave BTW) I had no idea about the back story, how it started, how it ended, really good stuff there.

Still probably never gonna happen

aww yeah one more thing, NegativeDave cheer up!,,, THINGS AIN'T SO BAD