Tag: silk road 2
To anyone following the cat-and-mouse chase between the feds and operators of the darknet drug marketplace, it comes as almost no surprise that hours after law enforcement busted Silk Road 2, Silk Road 3 Reloaded popped up. Business Insider was the first major outlet to report the news. But since then, the Daily Dot has […]
Silk Road 2, the replacement for the now defunct and infamous Silk Road darknet drug marketplace, has been shut down by the FBI as well. The alleged operator, 26-year-old Blake Benthall, a software engineer at space transport company SpaceX, has been taken into FBI custody and is facing a maximum life sentence. From the FBI: […]