[nickeconopouly at gmail.com: Re: slur: you're going to hate it]

Nick Econopouly nickeconopouly at gmail.com
Fri Jul 31 11:23:36 PDT 2015


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> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:55:25 -0400
> From: Nick Econopouly <nickeconopouly at gmail.com>
> To: "Shawn K. Quinn" <skquinn at rushpost.com>
> Subject: Re: slur: you're going to hate it
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23+89 (0255b37be491) (2014-03-12)
> 
> On 07/30, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 21:15 -0400, Nick Econopouly wrote:
> > > Paste for those who don't want to load the webpage:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > http://slur.io/
> > > Slur: You're going to hate it.
> > > 
> > > "Slur is an open source, decentralized and anonymous marketplace for the
> > > selling of secret information in exchange for bitcoin. Slur is written
> > > in C and operates over the Tor network with bitcoin transactions through
> > > libbitcoin. Both buyers and sellers are fully anonymous and there are no
> > > restrictions on the data that is auctioned. There is no charge to buy or
> > > sell on the Slur marketplace except in the case of a dispute, where a
> > > token sum is paid to volunteers. - See more at:
> > > http://slur.io/#sthash.OsHtOC5o.dpuf"
> > [...]
> > 
> > This is either going to be very good or very bad. Only time will tell
> > which way this goes.
> I tend to agree. It has potential to incentize the release of more
> information, or create incentive to hoard information and release it
> based on the market instead of what is right or wrong.
> 
> In general though I think the project won't be moving forward, for
> several reasons
> 
> The service offered by "slur" could easily exist on many DNMs right now
> anyway-- I know there are sites where you can buy credit cards, etc.
> Does agora sell digital goods?
> 
> The website makes some fantastic claims as well. For instance the claim
> that information can not be sold twice on the slur marketplace, or that
> someone could really "prevent other parties from acquiring a copy" by
> buying it themselves-- Slur is making the mistake of treating IP like
> actual tangible property that can't be copied.
> 
> Also, the functionality of Slur would rely on Arbitrators judging
> disputes fairly instead of in some other interest
> 
> But there  really should be a better leaking platform than just sending
> it to an institution (guardian,wikileaks) or hosting it somewhere on the
> darknet and hoping people find it
> 
> -nick
> 

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