What Is The Silk Road?

The Silk Road can be described as an online market operated as Tor hidden service. This means that people can browse it securely and anonymously without any potential traffic monitoring. At first buyers were allowed to register for free as it offered a number of limited seller accounts. Later sellers are required to by an account through an auction if they want to sell their wares on the online marketplace Silk Road. To mitigate the possibility of some malicious persons distributing/selling tainted goods, a fixed fee was introduced for all the sellers that wanted to deal with the account.

History

Silk Road was developed in the month of February 2011. Development of the site had however started about 6 months earlier. The name of the site comes from historical trade routes network that started during 206 BC to 220 AD (Han Dynasty). This was between China, India, Europe and many other...