Bitcoin Deep Web Marketplace Silk Road 3.0 Is Back

[coinpr0n]

Seems like they're just looking to profit off their name. Well, Silk Road's name. I haven't looked into it, but how is this provably the same owners as before? Did they sign something with a known private key? (Article says the owners are allegedly the same. Hmm.)

[guoyu78]

http://bitcoinist.net/bitcoin-deep-web-marketplace-silk-road-3-0-is-back/

In a very surprising turn of events, it turns out Silk Road 3.0 is back online after a lengthy absence. Several new security upgrades have been implemented, and the overall design has been changed as well. However, the people running the platform are still the same, by the look of things.

...As the name suggests, Silk Road 3.0 is the third iteration of this marketplace concept, albeit every new platform has been run by a different team. In January of 2016, Silk Road 3.0 went dark after security upgrades were announced, and things have been quiet ever since. However, as of last weekend, the platform resurfaced with a new design and the promised security changes.

It is also worth noting the owner of Silk Road 3.0 is – allegedly – the same person running Crypto Market, another deep web platform which went through a similar transition period earlier this year. Crypto market was shut down for several months as well and came back a few months ago with an updated security and login system.

This looks promising.

sounds really strange a big announcement like an "official" website... probably there is some "national intelligence service" behind

[alyssa85]

This is an FBI honeypot for sure. I wouldnt touch it.

Yes, thats what I thought. But the author of the article was under the impression it was being run by the same Silk Road people as the old website. Curiouser and curiouser.

[BitcoinAccepted]

Maybe I'm getting old but these markets take all the fun out of the buying process.

What happened to driving round all night in a mk1 VW golf. Hitting redial on your Nokia 3210 and waiting in a dark car park for a sweaty steriod filled cunt called Dave to turn up with the stash.

Or better still knocking on doors in shitty parts of town and running the gauntlet of crackheads, hookers and Rottweilers whilst making small talk with coked up little pricks with big egos and long blades.

Youth of today don't know how easy they got it!

[Evildrum]

Why would they come back under the same name?
Get the potential established customer base but look how many suspect shadiness!

[Druze]

it looks like it could be promising, but im sure that in some way the fbi is involved so i would stay away

[MingLee]

it looks like it could be promising, but im sure that in some way the fbi is involved so i would stay away

Chances are they're always involved in one way or another, I wouldn't ever get involved with something like this mostly for the reasons someone is behind the scenes and watching, and also that I don't need sketchy-ass drugs from an online source. I'm also not in the market for getting any new fancy weapons either.

To be honest, I'd almost be fine with the FBI watching over a SR 3.0 if they were stopping things that exploited people, but chances are they'd just arrest everyone connected to a sale on that site so the sort of "good-guy FBI" dream is thrown into the trash.