“Like the old Silk Road, which until its closure served as the Web’s most popular bazaar for anonymous narcotics sales, the new site uses the anonymity tool Tor and the cryptocurrency Bitcoin to protect the identity of its users. As of Wednesday morning, it already sported close to 500 drug listings, ranging from marijuana to ecstasy to cocaine. It’s even being administered by a new manager using the handle the Dread Pirate Roberts, the same pseudonym adopted by the previous owner and manager of the Silk Road, allegedly the 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht arrested by the FBI in San Francisco on October 2nd.”
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Related posts:
Another Warning About Switching Your Healthcare Plan
Billionaire: Part-Timers Will Near 50% of Workforce Due to ObamaCare
Bank Calls Customer Over Detected Bitcoin Transactions
No, Trump, More Executions Won't Win the Drug War
The Airlines Work for Uncle Sam
Toshiba's quantum cryptography network that even the NSA can’t hack
Investigative journalist Ben Swann weighs in on push to Syria war
Bradley Manning Trial: ‘Aiding the Enemy’ Charge is a Travesty of Justice
In Nearly Half the U.S., Marijuana Arrests Have Gone Up Since 2014
Russian Orthodox Church: Snowden deals blow to ‘global electronic prison camp’
New attack on Tor can deanonymize hidden services with 88% accuracy
Czech bitcoin exchange Bitcash.cz hacked, 4,000 user wallets emptied
Nvidia About To Steal The Cryptocurrency Mining Crown From AMD
Grading the Presidential Candidates on Marijuana Policy
Trace Mayer v. Don Harrold – A Shoot-Out At The Bitcoin Corral