Head of Silk Road 2.0 Says It Will Be Back In Minutes If Shut Down
It only took a month for the Silk Road 2.0 to go live after the now infamous Silk Road marketplace shuttered. One month. Should the budding deep-web bazaar experience the same fate as its predecessor, and be knocked out by authorities still whack-a-moling their way through the online front of the war on drugs, the Silk Road 3.0 would be up and running in 15 minutes, tops.
That's according to the Dread Pirate Roberts, the pseudonymous head of SR 2.0. In what are arguably his most breathy public remarks to date the "new" DPR, who either cribbed his handle from the DPR of SR 1.0 fame or who is indeed the original DPR, opened up to Mike Power on his long-term vision for the site.
The exchange mostly finds DPR speaking of the need for such a peer-reviewed, quality-controlled service; if authorities come to their senses and start going after "real criminals", DPR says, maybe then will his philanthropic intentions come to full bore. But if you were hoping for a glimpse at SR 2.0's backend, for some word on how the site's nuts and bolts have fallen into place, sorry. DPR is decidedly close-lipped.
