Silk Road also required its anonymous buyers to trade money for bitcoins and then use the electronic currency for all transactions.

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As you can imagine, especially given that Silk Road was used to trade illegal narcotics, the U.S. government came down on Silk Road and Ulbricht like a ton of bricks.

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It sits on the so-called New Silk Road, an overland trade route designed to link China to European seaports via Central Asia – itself, a component of Beijing's even mightier Belt and Road.

Silk Road, the online drug marketplace, is now under FBI control. The agency also arrested Ross William Ulbricht, who they say created it.

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Expect a warm welcome from the peoples who live beside the ancient Silk Road trade route, says Chris Carter.

The online drug bazaar Silk Road claims it was attacked by hackers who exploited a flaw in the Bitcoin system and stole millions of dollars.