SILK ROAD { a-z anon market }

Silk Road was an online black market , best known as a platform for selling illegal drugs . It can be accessed only through TOR browser { A detailed post for understanding TOR will be upload soon } which make it more secure and anonymous platform . It was founded on 2011 by *Ross William , Operated by dread pirate roberts. 

 Silkroad  is also known as the Amazon or eBay of drugs. The name “Silk Road” comes from the ancient network of trade routes though places like Europe, India and China where various goods where traded such as Silk and spices to name a few.

70% of the Silk road marketplace is dedicated to that sale of drugs such as Marijuana and Cocaine while there are various other categories and also a lot of legal products like computer equipment and books etc. Guns and other goods used to be sold on the Silkroad but they were taken off later and now they prohibit the sale of “anything whose purpose is to harm or defraud.” This includes child pornography, stolen credit cards, assassinations and weapons of mass destruction. 

Everyone that first hears about the Silkroad asks “How is it still on the internet?”

 “Why haven’t the authorities taken it down?”

 and the answer is because the Silkroad is hosted as a hidden service on the Tor network and can only be run on the Tor browser. If you put the Silkroad address into a normal browser like Google Chrome then it will not work. The Tor network and browser was initially created with funding from the US navy for spies and defectors to safely transmit information anonymously without having their details compromised. The US authorities would love to take the Silkroad Anonymous marketplace down but so far they have been unsuccessful and it has been a long while now so I can’t see it happening in the near future either.

When buying anything off the Silkroad you can only pay with Bitcoins which is an electronic anonymous currency used that is relatively new but they are getting bigger and you can buy Bitcoins  worldwide now, Once you have your bitcoins you can make a purchase using an escrow service which will act like similar to PayPal so that the seller only gets their bitcoins when you have received your goods.  Although it is rare, there have been a couple of instances where a seller has taken off with peoples Bitcoins and the buyer didn’t receive the goods, so be warned to always look at the sellers feedback and use an escrow service.  After you have purchased an item from the silkroad you give them an address for them to send it to and then it arrives a few days later in the mail. As it is delivery by mail there are risks involved in getting caught if you buy something illegal and if you purchase from a seller not in your own country then the risks also increase.

In March 2013, the site had 10,000 products for sale by vendors, 70% of which were drugs there were 13,756 listings for drugs, grouped under the headings stimulants, psychedelics, prescription, precursors, other, opioids, ecstasy, dissociatives, and steroids/PEDs.Fake driver's licenses were also offered for sale. The site's terms of service prohibited the sale of certain items. When the Silk Road marketplace first began the creator and administrators instituted terms of service that prohibited the sale of anything whose purpose was to "harm or defraud".

Buyers were able to leave reviews of sellers' products on the site, and in an associated forum where crowdsourcing provided information about the best sellers and worst scammers.Most products were delivered through the mail, with the site's seller's guide instructing sellers how to vacuum-seal their products to escape detection.

In October 2013, the FBI shut down the website and arrested Ross william  under charges of being the site's pseudonymous founder "Dread Pirate Roberts".On 6 November 2013, Silk Road 2.0 came online, run by former administrators of Silk Road. It too was shut down, and the alleged operator was arrested on 6 November 2014 as part of the so-called 'Operation Ononymous'

Well not only silkroad there are several other kinds of Darkmarket exists which can be accessed only through Tor , in the coming update I will let you know about the different Darkmarkets and Deepmarkets .

Is it some kind of revolution ? A decentralised Revolution .?? An anonymous Revolution  hmm , Lets see