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That's a really good point. In my university Networks & Protocols course we made an anonymous messaging fabric where all the nodes could talk to one another but none knew who anyone else was, and every node could connect into the network by just knowing one node's address.

Could you make a market like this anonymous in the same fashion? Even if the Feds seized one node they'd have only seized one node?

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I think you could, check out GNUnet, seriously. Those guys have been laboring away for a long time to produce a platform for anonymous and encrypted communication.

GNUnet can be used to build a darknet of any sort: P2P chat, a social networking application, email, you name it. Brilliant people are plugging away at it to build a platform for people with less knowledge of cryptography (like me) to build this sort of stuff on top of.

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