I'm not positive, but do you mean the guy who ran the silk road. A website that's sole purpose was drugs. Which would be the difference! The marketplace being built is not INTENDED for drugs. Same with any marketplace. But the silk road was purely for illicit product.
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What’s the evidence to support this claim? I always thought Silk Road was just built as an anonymous marketplace facilitating payments with digital gold. The market decided that the best use case for this was drugs.
Yea agree Ross create the marketplace it wasn’t intended for any specific good or service, the drug dealers were the early Silk Road adopters.
Evidence is, my friend trafficked drugs on the silkroad, lost 5,000$ when the site got taken down. He showed me it. There was not one single non-drug related item for sale.
Saying the Silk Road was only for drugs is like saying bitcoin in those days was only for drugs. Both were just early adopters of Silk Road and bitcoin. It was just the first use case. If Silk Road was still around it could have grown beyond that use case just like bitcoin has.
If a Nostr marketplace was completely uncensored it is reasonable to believe that the same type of market would emerge first.
That's definitely not true, I bought non-drug related things. But also drugs.
The most sold items on Silk Road was books, not drugs 🙄
