The Silk Road hid on Tor, took only bitcoin, and looked just like Amazon, with shop pages, star ratings and customer reviews. Orders arrived in regular mail. Its boss, "the Dread Pirate Roberts", took a cut of every sale from nearly a million registered accounts, and for almost three years nobody knew who he was. Then he made one tiny mistake on Google.
Full documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klzRAV0rxT8
Visuals are AI reconstructions.
