Author: Grace Lisa Scott / Source: Inverse
If you want to sell drugs on the dark web, a new study suggests that being trustworthy can bring you more business than low prices or a variety of products.
Delivering what’s been promised and keeping your buyer’s identity a secret is key, according to a paper by researchers at Ohio State University’s department of sociology, published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. It’s the first study that examines the network of an encrypted, drug distribution network in order to provide observations on its users.
It’s probably a good idea too. Like most other financial transactions in our lives, buying things is moving more and more into an online space — and that includes buying things to get high.
”The accessibility and ease of purchasing illegal drugs online opens up a global market where buyers and sellers are no longer constrained by locality and buyers have more options and diversity in product selection,” Dana Haynie, a professor of sociology at Ohio State and co-author of the study, said in a press release.
The researchers collected data from all transactions involving opioid dealers in one large drug distribution market on the dark web over a six-month period. All the information the researchers collected was…
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