In the past few days, a
real life situation has developed
that will have to be made into a non-fiction movie.
Where is George Clooney and the producers of Oceans 15...
Scene 1: The US Navy develops an "dark" internet communication system
that hides the identity of the sender and the recipient and their locations
Scene 2: Legitimate people develop a system of "double blind" transactions called "bitcoins"
which use the Navy's internet system for financial transactions
Scene 3: People involved with internet gambling, pornography, and sale of drugs, stolen goods, etc
jump onto this system which is ideal for their purposes of anonymity
Scene 4: The US government via the FBI gets involved and
shuts down one of the biggest drug-sales exchange centers
Scene 5: A new drug-sale exchange center develops and
the value of bitcoins increases 10-fold in 4 months
Scene 6: Suddenly the assets (bitcoins) of the new exchange is hacked,
and millions of dollars worth of bitcoins are "stolen"
Scene 7: Our hero of the film, known only by his/her internet user name,
notices the theft and begins an on-line "car chase" to track the hacker
through thousands of internet transactions based on a tag of 0.000666 bitcoin.
Scene 8: The "dark" internet community goes wild, threats of "hit men"
and blood and hero-worship and...
Scene 9: Questions arise about the legitimacy of the new exchange...
Was it set up intentionally for the heist ?
Were the founders of the exchange in on the "theft" ?
Was there any "theft" at all and the thief is only a diversion ?
Denoument: Ummm, No, that would giving away the ending
Motherboard.vice.com
DJ Pangburn
12/2/13
Did One of the Silk Road's Successors Just Commit the Perfect Bitcoin Scam?
Quote:
Yesterday, Sheep Marketplace, an anonymous digital narcotics bazaar
that grew popular after the shutdown of the Silk Road, announced
that it had been robbed of 5,400 bitcoins—the equivalent of $6 million
at current exchange rates—and then promptly shut itself down.
This came just days after Black Market Reloaded announced it would be shutting down
due to an inability to absorb a massive influx of new users leaving Sheep Marketplace.
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