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ecib  ·  4070 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Silk Road shut down, servers seized

    a distributed and secure communication network in which it's not worth the effort to track down each and every person involved.

If there is one takeaway for me from the latest round of revelations, it's just how much effort they are willing to expend.

You're right about it being a communications problem. The possible solution of the child-sites popping up all needing to link buyers and sellers securely just sounds to me like you'd have the same issues with competency as one node, multiplied a few times. Encryption isn't easy for most users, and any sort of managed interface or network to make it easier is a huge point of failure potentially.

Maybe encryption knowledge at a base level just isn't where it needs (for the population in general) to be for a distributed marketplace like that to work anytime soon.