Say NO to swasticars

You definitely look more graceful in there than I ever did! 😂

I stopped being excited about it. Couple of dead de facto partners didn't help. I hear it is much safer nowadays though.

I found the tunnel fun, but a whole different way of flying. Did you take it up for a particular reason?

Around 800 jumps back in the day, but only tried the tunnel a couple of times

Do you jump Runa?

Please stop with the misinformation. Silk Road sold drugs. It never sold child porn or assassins. Weapons were very short-lived before the community voted to ban them.

Silk Road's rules stated 'you may sell anything the purpose of which is not to harm or defraud another person'

A murder is a personal service. People who order hits rarely want more than one. Therefore, as the whole idea of the dark web is the anonymity it offers, what possible incentive does a "hitman" have for carrying out the hit once they have the #bitcoin?

There has never been a genuine murder-for-hire site and likely never will be. It doesn't make sense as a business model.

People who buy drugs are repeat customers, so the sellers provide good service and quality product to keep their customers coming back. Drugs are also easily sent in the mail
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Darknet markets have run continuously since Silk Road shut down. Many of them dwarfed Silk Road in size, and added things like stolen credit cards and personal information to the items you could buy. The current market leader is many times larger than Silk Road.

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Also, the 69,370 bitcoin was only last month released by SCUSA to the USG to be sold, after years of various whackjobs trying to convince the DOJ they had a claim on the coins. Not sold yet.

Great piece, but the author @gregolear.bsky.social conflates two stories - the theft of Silk Road Bitcoin by Force and Bridges and the hack of 69,370 Bitcoin by 'Individual X'. This was the #bitcoin that Ross Ulbricht gave up his right to claim upon in order to wipe his debt. X is not Force/Bridges

The misinformation isn't helping anyone. Silk Road sold drugs. CSAM, murders for hire were explicitly banned.

Any others you can think of that I can add to the list?

3. James Ellingson, the man accused of being "redandwhite" aka "lucydrops" aka MIMM is due to face a 3-day extradition hearing next month. Among other things, it is alleged he scammed Silk Road out of around $750K by taking "hits" out on 5 people who didn't exist
eileenormsby.com/2023/05/19/t...

2. There is still another rogue USG / LE agent who has not been identified. 'alpacino' was initially thought to be another 'nym of Carl Mark Force, but that name was quietly dropped from his indictment
www.courthousenews.com/silk-road-de...

1. last month the USG was given the go-ahead by the courts to sell off the 69,370 #bitcoin (~$7bn) seized from "Individual X" who stole it from Silk Road in 2013. We still don't know who Individual X is.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/18607...

Two days later, a similar post appeared on a Bitcointalk .org thread "A Heroin Store".

Bitcoin was $0.42.

Silk Road was born. And the rest is history.