Obituary for Silk Roadselfnews Post Silk Road was born on February 2011 in the formally anonymous Tor network to the late Dread Pirate Roberts. Silk Road provided a safe platform for consenting adults to perform mutual trades of plants and other plant derivatives. Silk Road was an advocate of self-ownership and an active member of a voluntary society free from government coercion. It pioneered the crypto-commerce space and the utility of the digital currency Bitcoin, and was a strong supporter of the US Postal Service. In just shy of three years of community service, they facilitated over $1.2 billion in satisfied trades with astonishingly few complaints by participants. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that supporters contribute to the development of the peer-to-peer darknets, I2P and Meshnet, the anonymous altcoin Anoncoin, or your preferred organization to end the war on drugs. RELATED ARTICLE: 