In 2013, the FBI, DEA, and Customs officials had located the web servers the Silk Road had been hiding around the world. With the shutdown, included a seizure of 26,000 Bitcoin worth just $4 million at the time, and nearly $500 million at today’s current prices. Following the shutdown, Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht was convicted of running the dark web drug marketplace and sentenced to life in prison without parole. A sentence still being appealed by many as ‘too harsh’.

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