FBI shuts alleged online drug marketplace, Silk Road (Reuters)
The FBI busted Silk Road, but not the 'dark web' behind it (The Verge)
The Silk Road was an anonymized marketplace for buying and selling goods and services (primarily drugs to be quite honest), using a cryptocurrency called Bitcoin. Apparently over 1.2 billion dollars worth of Bitcoins changed hands through the site. The second article contains more technical details on how the site worked.
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