Episode 291 - The Silk Road: Drugs, Data & The Dread Pirate Roberts
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The Rise and Fall of Silk Road
When the Gorka article was released in June 2011, traffic on the site skyrocketed. Within its first year, the website had facilitated hundreds of thousands of individual sales and hosted transactions totaling to about $15 million. By November 2011, DEA agents had started to infiltrate a site, posing as both buyers and sellers. Then, on the 5th of February 2012, the site's owner and administrator posted an update on the Silk Road's progress.
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