2012-11-21 theverge.com - Online drug dealers back on Silk Road after mysterious

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Online drug dealers back on Silk Road after mysterious two-week outage
Site operators cite growing pains

Adrianne Jeffries
2012-11-21

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/21/3675278/silk-road-operator-says-fail-whale-not-feds-brought-down-notorious


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Users rely on Bitcoins, the semi-anonymous ecurrency, in order to buy and sell the thousands of items on offer; it’s been estimated that the marketplace accounts for a majority of all commercial transactions done in Bitcoin.
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