Seems like negative interest rates are post scarcity for money.

a pipe dream, even with free replication of everything people find a way to have scarcity. look at what people pay for things in game worlds.

Something nfts really hate

When you’re waiting for your pack from little biggy but it’s not in todays post.

Star Trek

shortage of credible acting, don't that count for anything?

I like how there's no seatbelts on the Enterprise, even though they get hit by something and the crew gets knocked on their arses in virtually every episode.

Star Trek Discovery has a more stringent HSE who has brought in new seatbelt regulations for the safety of the crew

Aren’t there several episodes where the arms of Kirk’s chair lock down across his thighs? (yep, sounds pretty ridiculous now I’ve typed it 😳)…maybe it was in the films?….defo happened or I’m giving up weed!! 😵‍💫😉

impossibility

the need for scarcity might not ever go away. scarcity triggers a human need that seems to defy rational economic theory, look at early nfts.

Vilayanur Ramachandran has gained lots of insights from people with various defects, it makes for very dramatic demonstrations.

Deep. Some food for thought: Elon musk recently said that raising a child is just 18 years of “prompt engineering”. Similar to how we would train an AI model, from its original training data to the parameters we set, it’s able to be trained to do ANYTHING - all dependent on the prompts we input. Therefore the real value lies in engineering the “best” prompts to get the desired results. Akin to raising a child, if we can engineer the right environment or thought patterns to allow the child to make the connections and conclusions based on that environment we have solved the puzzle to get whatever outcome we want from that child. This is why they call them neutral networks because they are literally modelled off the brain. I imagine watching an AI model grow and make its own connections between data points is just like watching a child grow and make connections between different data points in the real world. Interesting stuff.

This makes me both lonely and less lonely :)

True talk

So if I'm getting this right, I can add a topic here on LB, share a link to it anywhere on the internet, and when the link gets clicked I earn coins?

Exactly.

Nice, didn’t know this

Is it safe to post to LB on social networks?

Yes, obviously you can share any topic but I think you're concerned about items. I share items all the time on FB and insta with posts like "looks like cannabis is becoming a normal thing" or "it must be nice to have bitcoin" etc. As long as you contextualize it it is very valid content, I once saw a link on the front age of reddit.

I actually found this slice of heaven we call biggy via a Reddit post!

Very smart

Yes, I've done well with it, pretty much like other people are saying, I just link to strange posts and people do wind up registering afterwards.

What kind of content do you think will work?

I would write about making edible recipes and how 2 make concentrates like BHO. This is fair game to re-post anywhere.

Also how to smoke concentrates, this would be bigger.

yes with images

this is a good idea ive linked to questions about concentrate here, posting mostly on d1scord and reddit and it's performed nicely

this please!

#1 ongoing concern of every bigga.

Im doing well with bitcion content :)

There's some clickbait worthy headlines in the political and science posts.

just go to a subreddit like uk trees and share a link to a general post here about cannabis. when the person arrives they are going to find items they like, register and make you coin.

can confirm this works ;)

UK trees ban accounts for this 😑

posting a direct sales pitch will cause trouble, posting a link to any other discussion works. your reference code embeds to any content here and stays with the visitor youve introduced until they purchase.

I didnt post anything at all regarding sales/LB. I was in conversation with someone about a strain and i was banned out of the blue. Apparently, I was banned for having a link in my reddit bio...which is for my blog...which has LB reviews on it -.-

Go figure

Interesting characters but it doesn't seem that original

I think that's it, as archetypical millennials they give Buddha a context for our age. They are a specific antidote to the online wuwei of today.

But you know this has to lead to an app

now that would be dope

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Is this a joke or a scam?

There are over 1,000 "fraud" items on your commission referral link here. Please consider that you are not only introducing people to a world of harm but profiting from it. This is a shame since you seem to also be adding some quality content to little biggy.

I'm aware of that, it's a black market. I have my opinion on some services and products offered but my opinion does not matter, nor does the opinion of any other individual or entity.

It's the sum off all opinions that will cause self regulation. No product or service causes harm on it's own. It does when an individual decides to either consume a substance or use a service that can cause harm. In fact black markets as TR reduce the harm inflicted upon the global population through e.g. 'the war on drugs" that does anything but harm reduction.

For sure it's not perfect, perfection comes through evolution and darknet markets are a recent phenomenon that will follow the same path. In my assumption we are going to see darknet markets that sell regular goods and services as a direct competition to the capitalist system in place. They are the exponent of Agorism: they deprive governments from resources.

I earn as it's a referral link:

In fact, I don't earn on this referral link, I randomly selected an invitation link that I found in a public location. Think about it: a custom, personal referral link is bad OPSEC practice. It would glue my persona here to one on TR.

But let's assume that it was a personal referral link. Then I merely provided a 'sneak peak' on an economical and sociological evolution that is inevitable and I would profit from the investigative work done, to provide it.

Using your own logic, any printed or online medium introduces anyone to 'harm'. As the foundations of the knowledge acquired to inflict harm require access to the knowledge to do so. Knowledge is never free.

How the hell does your opinion not matter if you are endorsing the market?

Some decent points you make if not for the conflation of drug intake freedom and stolen credit cards.

Conflation?

The agorist society to which we are evolving through technology self regulates through various services provided by the market that tackle this fraud. And there are various: white hat hackers, grey hat hackers, the anonymous collective ... that already do. Pedophile content, hate, terror, racism, corruption is hunted and has been countered.

I'm guesstimating but maybe the overall perception on the fractional banking system is that low, that no real services sprout. So for now it would appear that the market does not see it as high priority issue.

Don't shoot the messenger :-)

Homey you are a promoter of a haven for fraud here, not an innocent messenger. Self-regulation starts with your own self. Then it's up to the folks calling you out here and that seems to be working.

tldr: i got 95 theses and a bitch ain't one
or something like that

I've got 95 things to distract you from simple fraud

As always, the real story is a bit more complex then what e.g.. DeepDotWeb makes out of it. The problem is that a lot of people, even tech journalists, don't have the technical knowledge nor do they know the culture on the darknet, let alone stand the actors.

I have been following and using some dark net services, even before the first SilkRoad. I'm a data cruncher that uses the web as my test lab, using information sources which are publicly accessible. I have a bunch data scraping tools, that basically visit all these sources and that stores the data I want. A whole bunch of data is a dataset.

Datasets are fun. Especially when combined and using existent or self invented algorithms. I'm not going to explain in detail, there are whole books on this.


So the TradeRoute. TR started as a relatively small black market that seriously expanded when Alphabay got shut down. Alphabay, as we all know has been shut down. The owner committed suicide in Thailand. Prior to the shutdown, Dutch police had already taken over Hansa Market which was where most Alphabay vendors and customers went. Hansa was a giant flytrap for anyone that did not go 100% in Opsec.

Next in line was Dream Market, although it had a substantial amount of users, the market and forum was a paradise for scammers. And it wasn't really the best user interface. The continuous rumours that it had been infiltrated by LEO did not help much either.

So TR, which had a decent UI and management of site and forums, dethroned Dream quickly. The TR admins were not exactly the best when it came to security. But they did have a bug bounty program. Somewhere in May, this year, a known blackhat, of which the name I can't disclose, did a full security audit of their stuff. That audit unearthed a bunch of exploits, that were not that critical but which needed to be fixed. Some fixes required adding certain components and reconfiguration of existing software. So the TR infrastructure needed downtime to deploy these.

For some reason they stopped at 70% or something. The things that needed downtime were never implemented because the market was growing too fast and there was literally not a second in 24 hours where they didn't have thousands of users online. When they finally took the decision to bring the market down for maintenance. Team DDOS struck the dark net. And there is no fix for that DDOS. It's a design flaw in Tor, it's shit easy to DDOS a .onion website if you know the

"What is the best Darknet shop which is not prone to exit scams?"
dejos: "TradeRoute!"

Maybe you haven't done research long enough homey or maybe just don't understand what humility could do for you. Either way you have a lot to learn here.