Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market, best known as a platform for selling illegal drugs. As part of the dark web, it was operated as a Tor hidden service, such that online users were able to browse it anonymously and s

But even if 3.0 turns into 4.0 turns into 5.0, Silk Road and its ilk aren't the future of deep web contraband. More likely, the latest bust will only buoy a new wave of decentralized markets.

About Silk Road 3.1: Silk Road is one of the most known markets on which you can buy drugs. This iconic marketplace has more than 50k listings of which 33k are drug related. The original Silk Road has been shut down but alternative markets started appeari