<story><title>Slur, a decentralized, anonymous, Bitcoin-based marketplace for information</title><url>http://slur.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fabulist</author><text>This is really disappointing and almost seems engineered to proliferate Bitcoin&amp;#x27;s reputation as a technology to service criminals.&lt;p&gt;I also think that they misunderstand the needs of their potential customers. They are trying to introduce a public, crowd-funded service to a market for covert information without any sense of irony. In broad strokes, a third of the value of a stolen secret is in knowing it; another third is having exclusive access; and the last third is that your competition does not know they&amp;#x27;ve been robbed. When they realize that you have their IP, they will pour money into R&amp;amp;D. Since they are already familiar with their work -- and you are not yet -- they are likely to beat you to market.&lt;p&gt;For that reason I&amp;#x27;m skeptical this venture can compete with existing black markets.</text></comment>
<story><title>Slur, a decentralized, anonymous, Bitcoin-based marketplace for information</title><url>http://slur.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olefoo</author><text>How are they going to enforce the exclusive sale model?&lt;p&gt;I can think of three or four ways to defeat even a relatively sophisticated attempt to do so in an automated manner. And if you&amp;#x27;re going to make money off selling secrets, what could be better than selling the same thing to a dozen purchasers each of whom thinks that they have an exclusive on the deal.</text></comment>