Today is a unhappy working day for absolutely everyone utilizing the onionland.

Silk Street 2 just obtained shut down and the operator "Defcon", true title Blake Benthall, received arrested.

Some critical facts:

– Blake Benthall aka Defcon was the operator of SR2 given that december 2013, when the SR2’s Dread Pirate Roberts (Not Ross Ulbricht) remaining SR2.

– The FBI located out the physical site of the SR2 server, by still unidentified implies, and had police in some other place make a mirror of the SR2 server.

– Blake was leasing the server working with his individual title, with his own particular e mail account.

– FBI observed proof that he cashed out around $200k us using exchanges and pre-ordered a Tesla S for $140k us, all working with that exact same electronic mail.

– When he was below surveillance, Blake ordinarily left his house or resort at the same time Defcon logged off the SR2 message boards.

If you liked this information and you would such as to obtain more information regarding hidden wiki kindly check out our web site. – He was applying some unconventional Browser / OS combo which they uncovered on his laptop computer and logfiles on SR2 ended up showing that Defcon was using precisely that combo.



Seems like the SR2 operator was not only not as poethic as Ross Ulbricht (SR1 Owner) but also alot fewer intelligent, they had alot a lot more challenging law enforcement operate to do to find Ross about a calendar year back.

The only seriously interessting point about this information imho is, how did they uncover the server?

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

Update:

Appears like this could be a big procedure with Quite a few arrests all close to the world.

The subsequent internet sites seem to be to be confirmed as seized as well:

Hydra

Cloud nine

whilst Pandora, BlueSky and Alpaca are also down.