Interesting article about tracing the gray market through the block chain.

[kugelblitz]

This article, while interesting, is the harbinger of doom. Chainalysis are serious boys that law enforcement uses against real crypto-enabled crime. This article's primary purpose is providing numbers that the Big Pharma lobbyists can point to when pushing politicians to crack down on the market.

I'm new to peptide scene, but I'm not new to getting drugs in the mail, and the level of OPSEC in this community is absolutely woeful. It is actually the thing that has given me the most pause about getting involved. Pinning untested Chinese chemicals may be less risky than leaving hard evidence of my activity on a transparent chain. Blockchains don't have a half-life and we're only one high profile overdose/fatality away from ceasing to be in a grey and moving to a dark market.

This whole community should be moving wholesale to actual serious privacy technologies such as E2E chats (WhatsApp doesn't count and don't even get me started on the jokes that are Telegram and Discord) and obfuscated blockchains such as Monero. People here will rue the day when they paid their vendors directly from their KYC exchanges.

 

[byefatlicia]

SSA was the best vendor I had, cheap reliable and no fuss, and was very popular here before they vanished, it was interesting to see they supplied fentanyl precursors, but realistically cross contamination with peptides and fentanyl has to be very unlikely . The processes used and even the machines are going to be different, cross contamination from a different peptide is far more likely, from inadequate cleaning of the machine when switching from one peptide to another for example.

SSA Bella was my first China relationship. I miss you @bellalala I know those heart hands were only for me! And I know that was your real picture! Well, maybe not. But a heart can hope.