It was a libertarian’s dream gone wild: a marketplace in which just about anything can be bought, by anyone, at any time without the worries of being overseen by the authorities. It was a secret corner in the deepest recesses of the Internet, inaccessible by conventional means, considered an unsubstantiated rumor prior to Gawker breaking the story
Arrest Of Alleged Silk Road Ringleader Threatens Circulation Of Bitcoins
Was the FBI’s real target not the online drug marketplace, but the cyber-currency that it dealt in?