silk road 1.0 ended deep web on october 2013.
silk road 1.0 ended deep web on october 2013.
when did the silk road 1.0 end deep web?
october 2013.
several deep web black markets have been shut by authorities. in october 2013 silk road was shut down by u.s. law enforcement leading to a short-term decrease in the value of bitcoin. in 2015, the founder of the site was sentenced to life in prison. alternative sites were soon available, and in early 2014 the australian broadcasting corporation reported that the closure of silk road had little impact on the number of australians selling drugs online, which had actually increased. in early 2014, dutch authorities closed utopia, an online illegal goods market, and seized 900 bitcoins. in late 2014, a joint police operation saw european and american authorities seize bitcoins and close 400 deep web sites including the illicit goods market silk road 2.0. law enforcement activity has resulted in several convictions. in december 2014, charlie shrem was sentenced to two years in prison for indirectly helping to send $1 million to the silk road drugs site, and in february 2015, its founder, ross ulbricht, was convicted on drugs charges and faces a life sentence.
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brian farrel, a second in command of silk road 2.0, was sentenced in 2016 to 8 years in prison.









































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following the closure of silk road 2.0 in november 2014, diabolus market renamed itself to 'silk road 3 reloaded' in order to capitalise on the brand. in january 2015, silk road reloaded launched on i2p with multiple cryptocurrency support and similar listing restrictions to the original silk road market. this website is also defunct.









































section::::advocates of deep web drug sales.
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