Last month a friend who had just started reading my book rang me almost hyperventilating. “It’s Landmark!” she said. “It’s fucking Landmark!” She had noticed some startling similarities between the Landmark Forum’s 2020 Charter (which seems to have been superseded since it was written in the 90’s) and the Silk Road Charter, which is quoted at the beginning of the
It is a year to the day since three alleged moderators/administrators of Silk Road were arrested. I posted an update on where the three were here. Little has changed as they face another Christmas break in limbo. In particular, the one who got the rawest deal, Aussie Peter Nash (accused of being forum moderator Samesamebutdifferent), is in New York prison.
ALL WELCOME Thursday 11 December 6.30 pm Come and enjoy complimentary nibbles (drinks at bar prices) at one of St Kilda’s coolest secret venues for the launch of “Silk Road” by Eileen Ormsby and screening of acclaimed documentary #TheBitcoinDoco by Dale Dickins. Be at The George Lane bar, 1 George Lane (enter from Grey Street near corner Fitzroy Street) St
Warning: all links in this article are NSFW! Open at your peril When clients book a good time with Jess, they get more than their pick of her available services. For the past couple of months, they have also been receiving a lesson in Bitcoin. ‘I am the only escort who takes Bitcoin’ Jess claims in her soft accent over
A year to the day after it opened, Silk Road 2 has been seized and San Francisco man Lake Benthall, alleged to be owner administrator “Defcon,” arrested. Yesterday, Silk Road member and administrator of The Hub forums, “Alfred” posted a warning to Silk Road users:
My latest mainstream piece is a feature in The Age profiling Silk Road’s much-respected DoctorX. The only SR user, as far as I can remember, to be quoted by Dread Pirate Roberts in his sig, with the memorable: ‘All drugs are absolutely harmless. If you leave cocaine, MDMA, meth or DMT on a table, they won’t try to assault you, rape you or
After last night’s 60 Minutes, any parent could be forgiven for barging into their teen’s bedroom and confiscating their computer, terrified that their offspring is accessing the 90% of the hidden internet filled with hitmen, weapons and drugs. Teens everywhere are doing it apparently. The 60 Minutes report is available here: 60 Minutes report on The Dark Web from video.au.msn.com Whilst parents
For the first time since its original incarnation’s launch in January 2011, Silk Road has been knocked off as the dark market’s leader. It now comes in third. According to Vault 43, Evolution has 15,851 listings, Agora 15,522 and Silk Road a mere 11,025 listings. “While our staff is the largest and most experienced in the darknet, we understand that
One of the members of Onionland recently created a searchable version of the original Silk Road forums. As you do, I went on a little trip down memory lane. In August 2012 in response to the thread ‘Think Silk Road will be around for a while’ I wrote: I think that no matter what happens to Silk Road, it will
Whilst headlines and fund-raising efforts have been concentrated on Ross Ulbricht, accused of being Silk Road mastermind Dread Pirate Roberts, three other men have been stuck in limbo awaiting their fate outside of the limelight. But the three have been spending that time very differently indeed. In December last year, three arrests were made concurrently in three different countries under the same indictment. Andrew
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