
The Silk Road darknet site was shut down by law enforcement in (Source: FBI). After authorities closed the original Silk Road, the FBI seized , bitcoins from Ulbricht, The COVID Payment Fraud Acceleration. Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market, best known as a The FBI initially seized 26, bitcoins from accounts on Silk Road, worth approximately $ million at the time. The government also accused Ulbricht of paying for the murders of at least five people, but there is no evidence that. “Individual X” allegedly hacked the Silk Road's payments system some time in or The government says that the Silk Road's creator.