Silk Road

摘要

for those who've never visited it, Silk Road is essentially an Amazon for illegal drugs, featuring thousands of public listings for exotic chemicals. Using bitcoins (a popular cryptocur-rency featured in wired 19.12), you can anonymously order heroin, cocaine, pot, or pills from hundreds of dealers. Two years after its launch, business is booming: Silk Road was recently estimated by one researcher to host nearly $2 million in sales per month.