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Trends in the Silk Road 2.0

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Re: Trends in the Silk Road 2.0

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Post by dobbsbob »

A single price index/ticker doesn't really work since every country has a different price. A lot of buyers on these sites are importing cheap MDMA from Canada and Europe where it's plentiful to their city where it fetches 3x the price. For example right now cocaine price in Canada is 2.5x what it costs in the US, and at least 4x more in Australia. Reason I know this because every week there's been shootings here of gangsters jacking each other to get their hands on high priced product. Before it wasn't worth it to them to risk a shooting but now the payoff is $80k per kilo so the streets are a warzone.

When weed is fully legalized guess we will see it as a traded commodity on the NYSE. Invest in a dope portfolio, freedom 35 retirement plan

Re: Trends in the Silk Road 2.0

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Post by xorcist »

tedks wrote: post #6

It's interesting and probably not surprising that the most popular drug on the Silk Road 2.0 (and probably other darknet marketplaces) is MDMA. MDMA is difficult to find in pure forms and impurities can kill you. If you buy MDMA from a vendor with a 4.9/5 rating, you can be reasonably certain you're getting quality product (comparable to old pressed pills you can hear aging ravers wax nostalgic about) at a fair price…

> Silk Road allows them to be distributed without any violence.

Yeah, what's a few contract killings among friends...

Re: Trends in the Silk Road 2.0

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Post by baby »

If there could be some sort of graph for the prices of cocain, heroin, lsd, etc... similar to this one: www.davidwong.fr/ltc/

this would be pretty awesome.

I'm also really surprised about the numbers of german sellers in Europe.

Re: Trends in the Silk Road 2.0

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Post by Energy1 »

xorcist wrote: post #42
tedks wrote: post #6

It's interesting and probably not surprising that the most popular drug on the Silk Road 2.0 (and probably other darknet marketplaces) is MDMA. MDMA is difficult to find in pure forms and impurities can kill you. If you buy MDMA from a vendor with a 4.9/5 rating, you can be reasonably certain you're getting quality product (comparable to old pressed pills you can hear aging ravers wax nostalgic about) at a fair price…

> Silk Road allows them to be distributed without any violence. Yeah, what's a few contract killings among friends...

Any examples?

Re: Trends in the Silk Road 2.0

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Post by vidarh »

Energy1 wrote: post #44
xorcist wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Silk Road allows them to be distributed without any violence. Yeah, what's a few contract killings among friends...

Any examples?

He's presumably referring to the contract killings Ross Ulbricht is alleged to have tried to arrange.

Re: Trends in the Silk Road 2.0

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Post by meritt »

virmundi wrote: post #9
tedks wrote: post #6

It's interesting and probably not surprising that the most popular drug on the Silk Road 2.0 (and probably other darknet marketplaces) is MDMA. MDMA is difficult to find in pure forms and impurities can kill you. If you buy MDMA from a vendor with a 4.9/5 rating, you can be reasonably certain you're getting quality product (comparable to old pressed pills you can hear aging ravers wax nostalgic about) at a fair price…

Legalized weed might eat away, but if the market is anything like Colorado, it's too expensive vs dark weed. It's so bad in fact that there are projected budget shortfalls because there are few consumers in the space. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/high-times/marijuana-prices-co... http://khon2.com/2014/04/09/colorado-tax-revenue-on-recreati...

It's worse in Washington. Legal weed is 3x the cost of medical and 6x the cost of street. It still brings in a vast amount of new consumers who won't pursue other methods, but the other methods will not die off until the price is more competitive.

Re: Trends in the Silk Road 2.0

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Post by ossreality »

xorcist wrote: post #42
tedks wrote: post #6

It's interesting and probably not surprising that the most popular drug on the Silk Road 2.0 (and probably other darknet marketplaces) is MDMA. MDMA is difficult to find in pure forms and impurities can kill you. If you buy MDMA from a vendor with a 4.9/5 rating, you can be reasonably certain you're getting quality product (comparable to old pressed pills you can hear aging ravers wax nostalgic about) at a fair price…

> Silk Road allows them to be distributed without any violence. Yeah, what's a few contract killings among friends...

which of course has fuck all to do with the actual drug sales?

Re: Trends in the Silk Road 2.0

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Post by GigabyteCoin »

Your report is quite interesting!

I only wish you had performed it on one of the more popular darknetmarkets as Silkroad 2.0 has been publicly labeled a scam (they managed to lose everybody's funds and have paid ~80% of the smallest losers back so far [0]) and is thus nowhere near as popular as places like Evolution according to the good people on /r/DarkNetMarkets

[0] http://www.deepdotweb.com/2014/02/13/silk-road-2-hacked-bitc...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/darknetmarkets

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