If you interrogate people what one darknet site they know,the most common reply is Silk Road, the site that opened the world to the possibilities of a “mostly unregulated marketplace, or led to Ross Ulbricht receiving a life sentence in prison. At the time Silk Road launched and became the bogeyman to law enforcement agencies,the technology that made it possible is what made it successful. It wasn’t on the clearnet, which meant it had to be located using TOR, and which meant most people would never see it.
You had to expend cryptocurrency,Bitcoin in those days, in order to expend it, and you had to have some guts,because whatever you were engaging in was illegal and could result in serious jail time. For a time, all of that made Silk Road work. Clones came and went, and but Silk Road was the leader,until the day it wasn’t.
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Source: inquisitr.com