Silk Road shutdown Silk Road, an eBay-like marketplace operating in what many refer to as the ‘dark web’, was launched back in 2011. In 2013 it was shut down.

The Silk Road's libertarian free-trade zone has devolved into a fragmented, less ethical, and far less trusted collection of scam-ridden black markets.

Drug sales on the dark web actually increased after the closure of bitcoin-only marketplace Silk Road, a new survey has shown. Established by addiction specialist Dr Adam Winstock in 2011, the ...

Since its inception approximately two-and-a-half years ago, Silk Road's illicit sales revenue totaled 9.5 million Bitcoins, and commissions totaled over 600,000 Bitcoins, mostly through the sale ...

The Silk Road is dead. But the dark web dream lives on. On Wednesday morning, Silk Road 2.0 came online, promising a new and slightly improved version of the anonymous black market for drugs and ...

Let’s back up a bit. Silk Road was a site that Ulbricht created in 2011 on the dark web, a part of the internet that is not accessible through today’s traditional search engines.

Ross Ulbricht, formerly known online by the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" (a nod to the novel "The Princess Bride"), is known today as the founder of the Silk Road marketplace, a former site on the ...

After Silk Road takedowns, Dark Web drug sites still thriving Evolution sells drugs, guns, and more—but no "services related to murder." Cyrus Farivar – Dec 19, 2014 5:10 AM | 38 ...

The Silk Road 2.0 operator pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, money laundering and making 464 category A indecent images of children. White was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court and has been ...