Buying at Silk Road 2.0 is Glamorous and Safe
The Guardian has a comprehensive review of Silk Road 2.0, one of the many successors of Silk Road. When Silk Road was closed down in October 2013, the prosecutors proclaimed the beginning of the end of this illicit trade. Not so. Now there are around 30 copycat marketplaces, including Hydra, Pandora, Outlaw Market, Agora, and 1776 Market Place, and most of them are doing a decent trade. The verdict on Silk Road 2.0: "Buying drugs from professional-looking sites with user ratings, proceed-to-carts and customer-service buttons makes sourcing cocaine a lot like buying a DVD or doing your....
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The latest reincarnation of the deep web marketplace, in the form of Silk Road 3.0 is started by the people behind Crypto Market. Will they be able to live up to the expectations? Silk Road is reincarnated for the fourth time. The deep web marketplace is back online after its predecessors were forcibly shut down by the law enforcement agencies resulting in the creator’s arrest and incarceration. Silk Road used to be a network of trade routes traversing through the whole of Asian continent to connect with the Mediterranean Sea. It originally got its name for being the route taken by the....
The FBI shut down black marketplace Silk Road a year ago. This hidden website was used for the sale and purchase of items and services such as drugs, weapons, fake passports and other forged documents. To refresh your memory of the full Silk Road story, check out our interactive timeline below: This article is part of CoinDesk's Silk Road: One Year On series. Keep checking back for new additions to the series. Road. Silk RoadTimelines
If reports are to be believed, a new version of the online drug marketplace Silk Road - "Silk Road Reloaded" - has been launched recently. It is only a coincidence that the new Silk Road's introduction arrived only after the death of its predecessor Silk Road 2. In fact, our research revealed that Silk Road Reloaded was in development for over a year. This somewhat indicates that the makers of previous versions may not be backing this new project after all. And it reflects in the outcome as well. Silk Road Reloaded apparently uses "I2P" instead of the Fed's favorite Tor. I2P stands for....