The scariest project I've ever seen is OpenBazaar. It's a decentralized marketplace. It does for physical things what Napster did for music. Not the best analogy, since you have to pay for the things, but it's not far off.
Right now they only sell trinkets, like sunglasses. But both the founders are former spooks. They live in fairfax, 20min from Langley. And they're adding Tor and Tails support in the next release.
The implications are massive and disturbing. 13yos will be able to buy heroin. It's not just breathless speculation. I probably would've done something similar, not to use it, but just to see if I could. You do that kind of stuff all the time as a faux-edgy kid. And it's easy for kids to get bitcoin from ATMs. I don't even want to think about what will happen in groups.
I'm trying to keep quiet and see what happens with the project. But all the darknet markets are apparently dead right now. It will either be one of the most empowering or damaging pieces of technology. Tor and Amazon had a baby and named it OpenBazaar.
But I know how hard it is to predict anything like that, so it's like a 90% chance I'm just posting a silly comment. It's not too hard to imagine though -- bitcoin and tor serve as examples of what's possible at the intersection of society and technology. All the elements are there for the project to have a huge impact.
Right now they only sell trinkets, like sunglasses. But both the founders are former spooks. They live in fairfax, 20min from Langley. And they're adding Tor and Tails support in the next release.
The implications are massive and disturbing. 13yos will be able to buy heroin. It's not just breathless speculation. I probably would've done something similar, not to use it, but just to see if I could. You do that kind of stuff all the time as a faux-edgy kid. And it's easy for kids to get bitcoin from ATMs. I don't even want to think about what will happen in groups.
I'm trying to keep quiet and see what happens with the project. But all the darknet markets are apparently dead right now. It will either be one of the most empowering or damaging pieces of technology. Tor and Amazon had a baby and named it OpenBazaar.
But I know how hard it is to predict anything like that, so it's like a 90% chance I'm just posting a silly comment. It's not too hard to imagine though -- bitcoin and tor serve as examples of what's possible at the intersection of society and technology. All the elements are there for the project to have a huge impact.