The market Ulbricht built was based on an expectation of anonymity: Silk Road servers operated within an anonymous Tor network. Transactions between buyers and sellers were conducted in bitcoin
The infamous Silk Road resurrected itself like a junkie phoenix this month, leaving its long-time residence on Tor for a new anonymizing service called the Invisible Internet Project, or I2P. News FBI's Story of Finding Silk Road's Server Sounds a Lot She says the Silk Road's CAPTCHA was hosted on the same server as the rest of the Silk Road. And that would mean all of it was accessible only through Tor's network of obfuscating bounced connections. After the Silk Road conviction, Tor must be protected Feb 19, 2015 Staying Anonymous Online: Where the Silk Road Founder Went
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Silk Road Reloaded Switches from Tor to I2P Anonymous Network January 13, 2015 Swati Khandelwal Multiple successors of the original Silk Road have come and all have been taken offline in recent years, but aside from selling illegal goods and services, they all have had one thing in common – they've all relied on the Tor network.
The infamous Silk Road resurrected itself like a junkie phoenix this month, leaving its long-time residence on Tor for a new anonymizing service called the Invisible Internet Project, or I2P. News