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● 05/05/2023
“What surprised us was that the majority of species that are traded on the dark web are for their recreational drug properties, particularly for psychoactive compounds. People trade these to essentially lick them.”
– University of Adelaide ecologist Phill Cassey, on the booming illegal wildlife trade on darknet markets. In a new paper, Cassey and team identified 153 different species on offer, many of them with known drug properties. The toxic glands of the advertized Sonoran desert toad (Incilius alvarius), for example, contain the psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT.
ABC (Australia)
● 19/11/2020
“If the surface internet is like Art Basel, then the darknet would be your artist-run space in a dirty basement in Bushwick.”
– Italian internet artist Franco Mattes, on “Time Out of Joint,” the online exhibition he and partner Eva curated in “uncharted territory at the periphery of the Internet” as part of the 2020 Yerevan Biennial. “Can we still imagine a place with no likes, shares, comments, and recommendations? A place with only content?” Mattes asks about the darknet as a viable alternative. “It might be liberating, forcing the FOMO out of you.”
Facebook
● 04/11/2020
“Almost 70,000 bitcoins stored in the account which, like all bitcoin wallets, is visible to the public, had lain untouched since April 2013. The website was shut down by an FBI raid six months after they were deposited, and they have not moved since.”
– Technology reporter Alex Hearn, on how an idle $1B cache of bitcoins linked to the shuttered darknet market Silk Road has suddenly changed hands. An estimated 450,000 bitcoins ($7B) earned on the marketplace still remain unaccounted for.
The Guardian
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