Right now is a sad day for everybody making use of the onionland.

Silk Street two just obtained shut down and the operator "Defcon", actual title Blake Benthall, got arrested.

Some crucial points:

– Blake Benthall aka Defcon was the operator of SR2 due to the fact december 2013, when the SR2’s Dread Pirate Roberts (Not Ross Ulbricht) left SR2.

– The FBI found out the physical spot of the SR2 server, by yet unknown means, and had law enforcement in some other region make a mirror of the SR2 server.

– Blake was renting the server employing his individual name, with his personal personalized email account.

If you adored this write-up and you would certainly such as to receive additional info relating to hidden wiki kindly check out our own page. – FBI located proof that he cashed out above $200k us applying exchanges and pre-requested a Tesla S for $140k us, all making use of that same e mail.

– When he was below surveillance, Blake typically left his property or hotel at the very same time Defcon logged off the SR2 boards.

– He was utilizing some abnormal Browser / OS combo which they located on his laptop and logfiles on SR2 were exhibiting that Defcon was employing precisely that combo.



Looks like the SR2 owner was not only not as poethic as Ross Ulbricht (SR1 Operator) but also alot considerably less intelligent, they experienced alot a lot more really hard law enforcement do the job to do to locate Ross about a 12 months ago.

The only seriously interessting factor about this news imho is, how did they obtain the server?

And who will open SR3 or will the Silk Road brand name just vanish with no new Dread Pirate Roberts in seight?

Update:

Looks like this could be a major procedure with Numerous arrests all all around the world.

The pursuing sites seem to be to be confirmed as seized also:

Hydra

Cloud nine

even though Pandora, BlueSky and Alpaca are also down.