I better do a warning here.

This episode is going to talk about drugs and dark markets through like the whole episode.

So if you'd rather not listen to me go on and on about drugs for an hour, you might want

to consider skipping this one.

Also it might help to listen to episode 24 first.

That one's called Operation Bayonet, which goes into detail about drugs being sold on these

dark markets.

You don't need to listen to Operation Bayonet first, but it does explain a lot of stuff

and leads you up to the events before this one.

So it's a good idea to pause this one, go do Operation Bayonet first and then come back

to this one.

You know the internet has really brought to life a whole new user base that traditionally

was very different.

For instance, stock market trading.

Traditionally this was a very slow system.

You first needed to get extra money to invest with, which was easier to get decades ago.

Then you call your broker to buy some stocks.

Then you wait for a while and sell it maybe years later.

And during that time you might check the paper like every day, once a day, once a week,

to see how things are going, because that's all you really had access to.

But the internet has made stock market trading so different.

You now have up to the second data on stock prices, incredible tools to help you spot

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