{"id":15974,"date":"2016-02-12T17:10:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T23:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15974"},"modified":"2016-02-12T17:10:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T23:10:26","slug":"online-market-is-turning-drug-dealers-from-goons-to-geeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15974","title":{"rendered":"Online market &#8216;is turning drug dealers from goons to geeks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Researchers argued that Silk Road and its successors, known as cryptomarkets or darknet markets, became successful after bringing together four technologies: the <a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/bitcoin\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">bitcoin<\/a> virtual currency and encrypted internet protocols such as <a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/mar\/11\/tor-should-not-be-banned-in-britain\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">Tor<\/a>, which allowed anonymity, as well as <a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.escrow.com\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">Escrow<\/a> and customer feedback systems, which gave buyers and sellers confidence in their transactions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/feb\/11\/online-market-turning-drug-dealers-goons-geeks-darknet\">Online market &#8216;is turning drug dealers from goons to geeks&#8217; | World news | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn the drug cryptomarket era, having good customer service and writing skills, and a good reputation, via feedback, as a vendor or buyer may be more important than muscles and face-to-face connections.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers argued that Silk Road and its successors, known as cryptomarkets or darknet markets, became successful after bringing together four technologies: the bitcoin virtual currency and encrypted internet protocols such as Tor, which allowed anonymity, as well as Escrow and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15974\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[742,525,353],"class_list":["post-15974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-bitcoin","tag-market-trends","tag-tor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15975,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15974\/revisions\/15975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}