Silk Road is an anonymous internet trading platform located in the.onion zone of the anonymous Tor network and operated from 2011 to 2013.
Silk Road is the first online platform created in 2011 to anonymously sell prohibited goods, including fake documents and drugs. The marketplace was on the darknet.
Buyers and sellers conducted all cash transactions through, cryptocurrency bitcoin which, in combination with Tor, could ensure the anonymity of the participants in the transaction and the impossibility of blocking the payment. Buyers signed up to Silk Road for free and sellers were required to buy an account through an auction to reduce the risk of fraud.
Silk Road was closed in 2013. The store's turnover reached $213 million.
2025: US President Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht
In January 2025, the US President announced that he had signed a decree pardoning the creator of the Silk Road marketplace, 40-year-old Ross Ulbricht, also known under the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts, who has been serving a life sentence since 2014.
Ulbricht is known as the person who gave bitcoin its first liquidity. Having created a reputation for drug currency around Bitcoin, he received his first course of $500.
They say that Ulbricht buried the treasure and owns so much bitcoin that no one has.
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