Is the Silk Road Illegal

Item description pageCurrent statusShut down by the FBI in October 2013. Silk Road 2.0 shut down by FBI and Europol on 6 November 2014.

Does Silk Road still exist?

Part of the Silk Road still exists, in the form of a paved highway connecting Pakistan and the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China.

How did the Silk Road guy get caught?

In 2013, 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht was arrested by the FBI for running a website called Silk Road. … Silk Road did not accept cash or credit cards; users had to pay with bitcoin, a cryptocurrency. All transactions were encrypted and hence untraceable.