Posted on 12/02/2013 3:44:07 PM PST by Lazamataz
Did a hacker or hackers pull off a huge heist from one of the biggest black market drug-selling sites, or did the operators of the anonymous digital narcotics bazaar, Sheep Marketplace, just get away with stealing at least $5.4 million and perhaps as much as $40 million from their clients?Sheep Marketplace and stolen bitcoins
After the shutdown of Silk Road in October, Sheep Marketplace became the most popular illicit virtual drug shop. Like Silk Road, Sheep Marketplace was a Deep Web site accessible via the Tor network; customers paid in the digital currency Bitcoins. But by Saturday, Tapscape reported, "It appears as though the entire site was a scam, resulting in all of the buyers and sellers losing their money. Concerns regarding the legitimacy of the site came into play once the administrators at the marketplace decided to prevent vendors from withdrawing any of their bitcoins from the site."
Then on Sunday, Sheep Marketplace administrators posted on the homepage
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Besides, who deals on a website named "Sheep Marketplace"? Aren't you just SCREAMING to be shorn, there?
bttt
Round up the usual suspects - NSA, FBI, CIA.
Sounds like a “White Collar” episode.
Silicon Valley catches Bitcoin fever
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3097361/posts
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3097365/posts
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3097370/posts
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3097394/posts
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/mf_bitcoin/all/
Baaah-baah. I was robbed of anonymous coins at the sheep market place. Talk about leading lambs to their slaughter .
The Winkelvoss twins have recently made a major investment in Bitcoins future.
I have seen a half dozen or so articles, PR if you will, about Bitcoin that are unusual.
From what I can tell, they are trying to normalize Bitcoin as an accepted “store of value” publicly, so they can establish an EFT or derivatives market.
I don’t think this latest issue will deter their efforts.
I’m sure Interpol will get right on it!
In other words, everyone made their money and are now out.
“so they can establish an EFT or derivatives market.”
Wow! How many layers of abstraction would that involve. Take a virtual currency, then create derivatives, ....” It’s liken nothing to the Nth power.
hahaha
can’t exactly call the cops and say the dealer stole your drug money...
heh
recently another story had a website called Zambian Meat
just don’t go there
It is simply the logical extension.
An extension that would provide virtually NO RISK if plays out.
Now would be a good time to pull out the nuclear weapons if the authorities (community) of Bitcoin had them. Or, perhaps they could have simply used them as a deterrent to prevent these kinds of thefts.
I hadn’t thought about it, before you mentioned it; but, now I agree — it’s inevitable.
Lots of weirdos on the internet
The poor !?! Have you met them? They haven’t two bitcoins to rub together.
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