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Yes, and Silk Road was a darknet site. Silk Road was pretty well known in mainstream culture, was a featured story in Wired, etc.. maybe that's what made it w

• yieldcrv 3y ago
  To be fairer mainstream only ever mentioned Silk Road for the past 12 years consecutively and I only occasionally see another market when the Department of Justice does a press release, despite Silk Road being gone for a decade all the same All markets were immediately bigger than Silk Road and continued growing far beyond what silk road ever was, bigger by every metric such as number of listings, breadth of types of products, volume, more advanced, more resilient to government fund and server seizure attempts… We dont actually know if it was a “unknown darknet site” or one of the major ones, or simply a link posted on a Dread subreddit