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.

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 ...

Silk Road 2.0 operated until November 2015 when the alleged owner, Blake "Defcon" Benthall, was detained by police and Silk Road Reloaded, while in operation, requires specialized I2P connectivity ...

Silk Road Website Dealt Drugs, Guns, Assassins for Bitcoins, FBI Says. Though TOR was originally sponsored by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, it is now developed by the Tor Project.

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 ...

The dark web has only grown in the years since the FBI seized the Silk Road’s servers and arrested its creator in late 2013. At that time, the site had roughly 12,000 listings, for items ranging ...

Authorities shut down one of the most popular anonymous drug bazaars on the web, Silk Road 2.0, in October 2013. The online marketplace was part of the 'dark web', in which users could purchase ...

David Ryan Burchard, 38, allegedly used "caliconnect" as his alias on the now-defunct Silk Road and apparently used similar usernames on Silk Road's successor site and then on other dark web ...

Sales of illicit drugs on the so-called dark web have tripled since the 2013 shutdown of the online marketplace Silk Road, according to new research.

Silk Road, the underground website where dealers sold illegal drugs, was supposed to be safe. The site was nestled deep in the dark web, accessible only through the anonymizing network Tor.

Nick Robinson on talks about playing a dark-web drug kingpin in "Silk Road" and his future involvement on Hulu's "Love, Victor." Continue to Variety SKIP AD You will be redirected back to your ...