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fubarobfusco comments on Open Thread, September 30 - October 6, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 02 October 2013 06:28:22PM *  16 points [-]

Silk Road drugs market shut down; alleged operator busted.

Bitcoin drops from $125 to $90 in heavy trading.

Edited to add: Well, that was quick. Doesn't look like the bottom fell out.

Edited again: Here's the criminal complaint against the alleged operator. The details at least make sense as a story: in the early days of Silk Road, the alleged operator had really lousy opsec, linking his name to the Silk Road project. Then later, he seems to have got scammed by a guy who first threatened to extort him, then pretended to be a hit-man who would kill the extortionist.

Comment author: gwern 03 October 2013 01:52:50AM 8 points [-]
Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 03 October 2013 02:45:17AM 3 points [-]

Can we trust that all of these sources will eventually be archived on gwern.net?

Comment author: gwern 03 October 2013 03:03:49AM 7 points [-]

Yes, assuming the files aren't too gigantic like 100M+. Right now I just want to collect everything relevant.