the silk road 2.0 ended deep web on october 2013.
the silk road 2.0 ended deep web on october 2013.
when did the silk road 2.0 end deep web?
october 2013.
on 5 and 6 november 2014, a number of websites, initially claimed to be over 400, were shut down including drug markets such as silk road 2.0, cloud 9 and hydra. other sites targeted included money laundering sites and "contraband sites". the operation involved the police forces of 17 countries. in total there were 17 arrests. a 26-year-old software developer was arrested in san francisco and accused of running silk road 2.0 under the pseudonym 'defcon'. defcon was "one of the primary targets". within hours of the seizure a third incarnation of the site appeared, 'silk road 3.0'; silk road had previously been seized in october 2013, and then resurrected, weeks later, as 'silk road 2.0'.
operation onymous
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.
silk road (marketplace)