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How Tor Plus Bitcoin Enabled Silk Road
- Silk Road combined Tor anonymity with Bitcoin payments to dramatically reduce risk for buyers and sellers.
- That technical pairing enabled a scalable, trust-oriented online drug marketplace unlike earlier clearnet sites.
Dread Pirate Roberts Became A Political Figure
- The site's admin adopted the name Dread Pirate Roberts and began posting long libertarian manifestos on Silk Road.
- That shift turned the anonymous operator into a political figurehead and united users around ideology.
Undercover Agent Faked A Murder To Infiltrate
- DEA agent Carl Force took over an Australian dealer's account and staged a fake murder to gain trust with Dread Pirate Roberts.
- That manufactured proof let Force enter the site's inner circle and gather intelligence from insiders.