What’s the evidence to support this claim? I always thought Silk Road was just built as an anonymous marketplace facilitating payments with digital gold. The market decided that the best use case for this was drugs.

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Yea agree Ross create the marketplace it wasn’t intended for any specific good or service, the drug dealers were the early Silk Road adopters.
Evidence is, my friend trafficked drugs on the silkroad, lost 5,000$ when the site got taken down. He showed me it. There was not one single non-drug related item for sale.
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Jeff Swann 2 years ago
That's definitely not true, I bought non-drug related things. But also drugs.
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21seasons 2 years ago
The most sold items on Silk Road was books, not drugs 🙄
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21seasons 2 years ago
There was a lot of books which were banned/illegal on some jurisdictions(such as China) and these were the most sold items every I visited the site