Silk Road

What the record supports

Court papers and contemporary news reports are the spine of the Silk Road story. They describe a marketplace that used Tor and Bitcoin, an arrest in San Francisco, and a seizure of the servers.

The name predates the seven labels on the Tor Wiki contents page. Those labels are separate articles. Silk Road is not their parent company.

After the shutdown

Copycat names appeared within weeks. A later prosecution treated at least one successor as its own case. A shared word is not a shared operator, which is the rule this desk uses for every closed label.

People still search the name because it is the reference point in explainers. That search is why the page exists. It does not restore a shop.

What this entry will not do

There is no address, no mirror, and no walkthrough. The educational point is the shutdown: a market name can outlive the servers by a decade and still be only a word.

See also AlphaBay and Hydra for later seizure stories, and Nexus and DarkMatter for closed labels that survive mostly as logos.

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