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Cumol  ·  3711 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A new king of the Dark Net emerges after Silk Road 2.0 falls

You have trees and mushrooms.

Trees grow tall, live the life and produce glucose.

Mushrooms are small, deeply connected and wide spread. They cannot live by themselves and depend on the glucose from another source.

Symbiosis. Mushrooms and Trees have a deal. The trees provide glucose and the mushrooms provide rare/neccessary nutrients for the trees by transporting it from all over the forest.

As long as the trees seek the nutrients, the mushrooms will be there. If you take out one, the roots remain and another one will pop up.