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Coming from a Murdock paper this is not unexpected. Murdocks people pay hackers to break into peoples voicemail, they pay hackers to give out cracks to competing cable networks.   On top of that, this particular paper is the "national enquirer" of the UK.


http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-Issues/2012/0330/Murdoch-empire-faces-new-scandal-potentially-far-more-damaging

True.  Maybe (in the Murdock way) he is just trying to promote the Silk Road as this article will bring new customers to bitcoin and the Silk Road for sure.......  so next time he pays hackers he can use bitcoin and leave less of a trail to follow. 

If more the ruling system is angry, then even more I'm satisfied. Well done DPR.

I suppose they have another adjective for child porn that is not sickening?

I taught $US was the money of choice between criminals.

Glad that Bitcoin took this spot! 

BBC Radio did a segment on Silk Road and the Dark Web earlier this year (Feb 5th) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?&topic=1958.msg734973#msg734973 so they are not even the first UK source. I'm also sure that The Guardian has done a piece.

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The 'Sun' is read by idiots that believe any fear mongering BS that is fed to them.

I'm not personally interested in the Silk Road, but if I were, I wouldn't be able to help reading this as a massive positive advert:


Translation: "Yes, that's right -- the drugs arrived.  The totally immoral drug dealer supplied what they said they'd supply and you, the purchaser didn't have to sully your hands dealing with an frightening underworld that you know nothing of."

Once you remove the writers inherent assumption of disapproval, what he wrote is an endorsement.

Also: to be able to buy these "samples" as a test; the journalist has to have obtained some bitcoins.  I wonder how long it will take for the ease of use of bitcoin to penetrate the Sun-dwelling troll's psyche.  Ignore the product, think of how efficiently it was purchased...

Silk Road may have done lots of good for bitcoin, but it might be that in the longer run it will turn into harm. There are lots of us, who want to use bitcoin for legitimate commerce - and things like Silk Road might turn the public opinion negative towards bitcoin. However I hope that won't be the case, and people will understand that technologies like bitcoin can be used both for good and bad (whatever your definition of good and bad is...)