Within hours of Ross Ulbricht’s conviction for having created the Silk Road underground drug website, a few users of a copycat site lamented (Tor link) the site’s demise due to what they characterized as its founder’s foolishness and lack of operational security.
Evolution, or “Evo,” as its users have dubbed it, is likely the largest still-operating successor site to Silk Road. Ars was unable to find or load discussion forums on other similar sites, like Green Road or Agora. As of this writing, Evo has more than 30,000 listings for drugs, weapons, and more.
One Evo user, writing under the handle HashishUK, said:
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