Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market. [7] It was launched in 2011 by its American founder Ross Ulbricht under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts". As part of the dark web, [8] Silk Road operated as a hidden service on the Tor network, allowing users to buy and sell products and services between each other ...

Jan 24, 2025 · Silk Road was a digital black market platform that was popular for hosting money laundering activities and illegal drug transactions using Bitcoin. Silk Road, regarded as the first darknet...

Jan 27, 2025 · Silk Road, online black market known for providing a platform to buy and sell illegal drugs and for hosting other illicit activities. The site was founded by Ross Ulbricht in February 2011 and eventually shut down by law enforcement in 2013.

May 18, 2024 · As the internet’s first widely used dark web market, Silk Road has a wild and seedy history, and it played a significant role in the emergence of Bitcoin. Learn all about Silk Road’s rise and fall and the dark web marketplaces that replaced it.

Silk Road was a notorious cyber black market for illicit goods and the first dark web market of the internet era. Launched in 2011 and shut down by the FBI in 2013, Silk Road paved the way for today’s underground world of dark web marketplaces.

May 14, 2015 · Silk Road emerged as the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet, serving as a sprawling black-market bazaar where unlawful goods and services, including illegal drugs of virtually all varieties, were bought and sold regularly by the site’s users.

Oct 9, 2013 · What is the Silk Road? A virtual black marketplace operating on the Deep Web. Launched in February 2011, it ran using Tor, which ensured anyone browsing could do so anonymously by...

Oct 21, 2013 · Criminals who prowl the cyber-underworld's "darknet" thought law enforcement couldn't crack their anonymous trade in illegal drugs, guns and porn. But a series of arrests this month, including the...

Oct 1, 2013 · BALTIMORE — The Silk Road website, which served as an online international marketplace for users to buy and sell controlled substances, false identifications and other contraband over the Internet, was seized and shut down Oct. 2 by special agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the ...

Silk Road was hidden in the so-called dark web, a part of the Internet that’s invisible to search engines like Google. To access Silk Road you needed special cryptographic software.