With its popularity increasing, BTC was starting to be sold as an investment opportunity. Still, it is only accepted as a currency in Deep Web. Although Bitcoin goes further back in history, it got the attention of the world when 1 Bitcoin was valued at more than 1000 dollars. If we look at the history of Bitcoin, it was the most sensational thing in the digital world in 2014. Before Silkroad was shut down by FBI, it worked like Amazon or eBay.īefore Silkroad was shut down, all traffic was going through this website, and it's rumored that the high ranking admins were FBI agents. The Darknet is no different than a trading platform. Also, the mining process might take a lot of time and effort. To "mine" Bitcoins, first, you need special hardware and software, which may be a little expensive. You can use your bitcoins by spending them or selling them to bitcoin bounty hunters. The value of 1 BTC depends on bids, which is similar to real life exchange markets. There are many ways to obtain Bitcoins, but we will not be mentioning them here. To shop in this market, you will need the online currency, Bitcoin. We mentioned Silkroad above, you can think of it is as the Dark Market.
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To engage in online trades, you need Bitcoins, your credit cards or bank accounts won't help you out there. It is said that the money circulating on Darknet reaches $2-3 million in a year. This is exactly what we are going to explore in the research we are sharing. So if the web we know of is only the tip of the iceberg, how big can the whole web be?
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Julian Assange: the founder of WikiLeaks, where many top secret documents of different countries were published.Įdward Snowden: an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013. He is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Ross Ulbricht : a former darknet market operator convicted of creating and running the Silk Road until his 2013 arrest.
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If you are interested in technology, you must have heard of Ross Ulbricht, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden. Urban legends introduce deep web as the den of criminals. On the contrary, the deep part of the web has been a very interesting subject lately. If a person can find all the information he/she needs on the web, the internet would be sufficient. So does this darknet (deep web) concern a regular internet user? We think not. How much do internet users know about the internet? The generally known fact is that there is far too much more information on the internet than what a human mind can hold. The general name of the complex web structure that dominates our lives in this century.