Silk Road alternatives live on despite second FBI raid

In a development that those involved in the project clearly should have seen coming, the FBI today shut down Silk Road 2.0, the revival of the deep web black market site that the FBI took down in September 2013, and arrested its suspected operator exactly one year after it went live.

Blake Benthall, a 26-year-old San Francisco programmer who claimed to work for SpaceX, was charged with conspiring to commit narcotics trafficking, which, the FBI reminds us in a press release, “carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison,” among other charges.

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