Bitcoin-Based Drug Market Silk Road Thriving With $2 Million In Monthly Sales 498
Sparrowvsrevolution writes "Every day or so of the last six months, Carnegie Mellon computer security professor Nicolas Christin has crawled and scraped Silk Road, the Tor- and Bitcoin-based underground online market for illegal drug sales. Now Christin has released a paper (PDF) on his findings, which show that the site's business is booming: its number of sellers, who offer everything from cocaine to ecstasy, has jumped from around 300 in February to more than 550. Its total sales now add up to around $1.9 million a month. And its operators generate more than $6,000 a day in commissions for themselves, compared with around $2,500 in February. Most surprising, perhaps, is that buyers rate the sellers on the site as relatively trustworthy, despite the fact that no real identities are used. Close to 98% of ratings on the site are positive."
98% (Score:4, Funny)
Drug dealers are the resistance in The War on Drugs.
If you can't trust the resistance who can you trust?
Re:And in countries where it's legal? (Score:5, Funny)
You mean like Alchohol?
I see you are typing under influence.
Re:And in countries where it's legal? (Score:5, Funny)