El sueño de Silk Road en la web oscura está muerto

El mercado de estupefacientes Silk Road, albergado en la web oscura, ha perdido sus servidores y su creador, Ross Ulbricht, está luchando lo imposible para escapar a una condena de cadena perpetua. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

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By Andy Greenberg

Not so long ago, the Silk Road was not only a bustling black market for drugs but a living representation of every cryptoanarchist’s dream: a trusted trading ground on the Internet where neither the government’s laws nor the Drug War they’ve spawned could reach. Today, that illicit narco-utopia is long gone, its once-secret server in an evidence storage room and its creator Ross Ulbricht fighting a last ditch appeal to escape life in prison.

But more than two years since the FBI’s Silk Road takedown, the dark web markets Ulbricht inspired are suffering a less tangible but more fundamental kind of failure: the Silk Road’s dream has died, too.

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