SilkRoad's monthly turnover reaches $ 2 million

Since this year, Senator Joe Manchin called for the “immediate closure” of the “daring” site for the sale of substances prohibited for free circulation of Silk Road , one of the most famous illegal pharmacies in the world has not just survived. On the contrary, with sales of $ 22 million a year and double commissions for site owners, compared to similar indicators six months ago, the black market is experiencing explosive growth.


Nicholas Christine , a computer security professor at Carnegie Mellon University, walked around for six months, indexing and analyzing the pages of the underground online market for illegal substances, Silk Road, based on Tor and Bitcoin . The result of the Christin study was an article (published in PDF ) that showed that the business site was developing rapidly: from about 300 in February to more than 550, the number of sellers offering all sorts of prohibited substances "from a to z" jumped. Silk Road’s total sales are now around $ 1.9 million per month. And its operators receive more than $ 6,000 in net income per day, compared with $ 2,500 in February. The most amazing thing is that buyers estimate sellers on the site as reliable and trustworthy, despite the complete anonymity of the resource, because no real identification data is used. Almost 98% of sellers' ratings on the site are positive.

According to Forbes magazine .