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<p>The Silk Road story is one of the biggest stories of the early 2010s. It was a fascinating mix of crime, cryptocurrency, human nature, and the dark web. It is a simple story of a website that was just as unsuspecting as your everyday online <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/21/fbi-cracks-silk-road/2984921/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">marketplace</a> like Amazon or eBay. Underneath the user-friendly interface and utility, Silk Road could only be described as the cyber-underworld’s largest black market. An FBI agent named Christopher Tarbell in the FBI&#39;s cyber-crime unit in New York even referred to Silk Road as &#34;the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today.&#34;</p><p>So, what exactly was the Silk Road story? Read along to find out.</p><p><img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/1e9cb26a2be04a0e86ab77b050c2172b.gif" />Source: <a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/cartoons-comics-sea-reading-WoWm8YzFQJg5i" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Giphy</a></p><p></p><h2 id="header-0"><a href="https://hodl.fm/silk-road-rise-fall" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">READ MORE ON HODL.FM</a></h2>

What Was the Silk Road Online? History and Closure by FBI

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