On: U.S. busts Tor drug market, arrests eight

[jmtame]

No, the project was called The Farmer's Market. While it operated on Tor, they accepted payments over PayPal which completely breaks the anonymity chain. Silk Road is still operational and uses other security mechanisms (in addition to a decentralized, digital anonymous currency) to further anonymize transactions, running all payments through a tumbler.

[joshu → jmtame]

Someone should write up a tour guide to the deep dark web.

I doubly wish I was indexing silkroad's prices, so we could see the price impact this event has.