Remember that The Silk Road is NOT the "troubled past" or "wild west".
Silk Road is the point.
Censorship resistance is the point.
Don't get it twisted.
NGU is merely a side effect.
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i was involved with that site too... ended up doing a year in prison in bulgaria about it... but NGU is not a side effect, it's part of what's going on, this is legit money, this is cash, this is a store of value, and with LN it is a full blown MoE as well, and grey markets need real money, bitcoin is real money, so the whole thing caught fire
sadly the monaros camp this part of the business and constantly berate bitcoiners and try to campaign to abolish bitcoin for darkweb trades but they are just the shrapnel from one of the many efforts of spooks to delegitimize and impede the progress of bitcoin
they won't win, and NGU is part of why, as is actual freedom, and money not being robbed by the issuers
NGU is the side effect of bitcoin being real money and it's only real money because of the supply cap and its censorship resistance property.
Ok I'll bite. Where's the next silk road?
There's been dark markets ever since silk road, they've continued to grow in size, each time one gets taken down another takes its place.
The Wild West was based AF though. Silk Road was the Wild West.
Bitcoin is the wild west, yes people can build cities, but bitcoin is vast and will always have a wild west spirit to it because it is PERMISSION-LESS FUCK YOU MONEY.
