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Topic: [2014-11-06] Feds Seize Silk Road 2 in Major Dark Web Drug Bust (Read 966 times)

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This is really bad news. SR 2.0 was one of the most reputed marketplaces out there in the dark net. Even when a hacker stole all their coins, they compensated the users with their own BTC.

No bitcoin were siezed! ,,, SR 3.0 was up 20 minutes afer sr 2.0 was down...
http://www.businessinsider.com/theres-already-a-silk-road-30-2014-11
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This is really bad news. SR 2.0 was one of the most reputed marketplaces out there in the dark net. Even when a hacker stole all their coins, they compensated the users with their own BTC.
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A year after the Silk Road 2 came online promising to revive the Dark Web drug trade following its predecessor’s seizure by the FBI, the sequel has suffered the same fate.

On Thursday international law enforcement agencies including the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and Europol took down the Silk Road 2 and arrested its alleged operator 26-year-old Blake Benthall in San Francisco. Benthall, who is accused of running the new Silk Road under the handle “Defcon,” has been charged with narcotics trafficking, as well as conspiracy charges related to money laundering, computer hacking, and trafficking in fraudulent identification documents. The criminal complaint against him alleges that the Silk Road 2 sold hundreds of kilograms of drugs of every description to hundreds of thousands of buyers around the world, with bitcoin-based sales of more than $8 million per month at the time of its seizure.

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/feds-seize-silk-road-2/
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