DARKNET CHRONICLES: EVOLUTION NOW REPLACES SILK ROAD

Last month, the FBI took down the online drug marketplace known as Silk Road. However much like a hydra, a new online marketplace has reared its head called Evolution Marketplace, and it is enjoying explosive growth in its offer of drugs and other illegal items.
A statement from the Digital Citizens Alliance shows that though the FBI action in taking down websites did have the effect of slowing down the darknet, new sites have nonetheless emerged in the interim.
The latest Darknet site, Evolution significantly ups the stakes. Digital Citizens Alliance Research Director Dan Palumbo reports that they sell weapons, stolen credit cards, and other more nefarious items that were forbidden on both versions of Silk Road. The difference between Evolution and Silk Road was in what the latter was willing and not willing to do.

This post was published at Crypto Coins News on December 23, 2014.

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