Silk road shutdown, Bitcoin is free to go mainstream
Today the feds seized, and shutdown the elusive online marketplace, Silk Road. For those of you that don't know. Silk Road was an online marketplace for everything. When I say everything, I mean, everything. From drugs, to weapons, and everything else in between, Silk Road had it. They were able to stay ahead of the feds, because they used the "semi-anonymous" Tor network. The Tor network connected you through dozens, if not hundreds of servers globally. For example, if connected to the Tor network, it would appear that your IP address was coming from Turkey, when you were actually sitting in a coffee shop in Los Angeles.
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