• jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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      16 hours ago

      Then you should probably care about him. He gave people around the world access to medicine that was illegal

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        11 hours ago

        Silk Road wasn’t the first darknet market ya know. I helped launch the first couple that were .onion prior to Ross, but the movement has been about since the 90s at least and would’ve happened without any of us. We were working on a decentralised version that would’ve been unstoppable but people moved on and got other priorities when SR took all the media attention and spotlight. I’m guessing it’ll emerge out crypto soon now the tech has caught up with the theory.