Designer Drug Markets Get Boost From Crypto

In less than three years, some 3,877 vendors sold approximately $183 million worth of various goods and services to 146,946 users on the Silk Road. That information, a government estimate, is available because the marketplace only used bitcoin. Bitcoin was once thought to be fully anonymous, but turned out to be only pseudo-anonymous, where alpha-numeric addresses can be traced back to real identities with a little legwork.