Explainer: what are drug cryptomarkets?
- Written by Monica Barratt, NHMRC Post-Doc Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Australia
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When we first discovered Silk Road, we could not believe it was real. People were buying illegal drugs anonymously through a global marketplace that resembled eBay or Amazon. It was a brazen challenge to the prohibition of drugs.
Silk Road was the first drug...