Wholesale illicit drug sales on the dark web are likely fueling offline markets — Quartz

Silk Road, the first major illegal online marketplace on the dark web, was shut down by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in October 2013. Since then, some 50 similar dark websites or “cryptomarkets” have cropped up and, like Silk Road, they are fueling illicit drug transactions. In a new study on online drug transactions,…

via Wholesale illicit drug sales on the dark web are likely fueling offline markets — Quartz