‘Nice people doing shady things’: Drugs and the morality of exchange in the darknet cryptomarkets

An ethnographic analysis of drug-centred cryptomarket community and exchange, this article explores the embedded values around drug distribution and consumption within this setting. Drawing on our interviews with cryptomarket users, we analyze the ways in which users claim the cryptomarket as a space of morality, empathy, trust, reciprocity, knowledge transfer, harm reduction and self-limitation. The anthropological concept of the morality of exchange is central to our theoretical approach.
Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - Category: Addiction Authors: Tags: Research Paper Source Type: research