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Oct 9, 2013

Marketplace Tech for Wednesday, October 9, 2013

We’ve been covering news about underground online market Silk Road since federal agents arrested the site’s alleged founder in San Francisco last week. Today there’s a bail hearing for Ross Ulbricht. Authorities say he masterminded the so-called eBay of drugs. Just using Silk Road, though, was a tricky process. Buyers and sellers had to deal in digital currency and use a kind of identity protection software called Tor.

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We’ve been covering news about underground online market Silk Road since federal agents arrested the site’s alleged founder in San Francisco last week. Today there’s a bail hearing for Ross Ulbricht. Authorities say he masterminded the so-called eBay of drugs. Just using Silk Road, though, was a tricky process. Buyers and sellers had to deal in digital currency and use a kind of identity protection software called Tor.