The Silk Road Doesn't Die -- It Multiplies
With the creators of the Silk Road and the Silk Road 2.0 facing prosecution, will the darknet exchange re-emerge?
The Silk Road was a black market trading post that operated as a hidden service on the Tor network, largely used to sell and trade illegal goods like narcotics or firearms. In 2013, the FBI shut it down, and within a month it was back online as Silk Road 2.0. A year to the day since the service went back up, the FBI took it down again.
The case of the first Silk Road still isn’t settled, as alleged founder Ross Ulbricht has yet to be convicted.
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