The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1
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A New Silk Road
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5 min read · 42 saves · From 2018 · China is investing billions in building pathways to Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East.
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4 min read · 27 saves · 2019-04-12 · For years, the arrest and case has been kept under-wraps. Friday, a court sentenced Thomas White to 5 years and 4 months for his role in running a huge dark web drug marketplace.
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Silk Road bitcoins worth $1bn change hands after seven years
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2 min read · 15 saves · 2020-11-04 · Funds have lain dormant since darknet site founder Ross Ulbricht was jailed in 2013
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Dropgangs, or the future of darknet markets • Opaque Link
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~13 min read · 38 saves · From 2018 · This article as PDF. Dropgangs, or the future of dark markets The Internet is full of commercial activity and it should come at no surprise that even illegal commercial activity is widespread as well.…
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Crypto, Beyond Silk Road
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13 saves · From 2018 · As a former Department of Justice prosecutor, Katie Haun set up the first-ever “cryptocurrency task force” for the U.S. government. She also led the investig...
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Follow the New Silk Road
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10 min read · 12 saves · From 2018 · In the first part of a week-long series revealing the effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative on cities around the world,Jon Watts journeys from the steppes of Central Asia to the Black Sea and into Europe,as Beijing’s grand plan radically remakes the lives of people in its path
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Along the new Silk Road, a city built on sand is a monument to China’s problems
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8 min read · 18 saves · From 2016 · Lanzhou New Area, in Gansu province, shows the folly of the country’s debt binge.
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AliExpress: The Online Silk Road
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18 saves · From 2017 · China’s state-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) set out to extend the nation’s global influence by building more overseas business ties and cultivating political links. This state policy has a particular symbiosis with one particular Chinese e-commerce platform, AliExpress. This brief but thought-provoking article by Wang Yuanyuan in Oriental Outlook Weekly may be a bit promotional about AliExpress, but it capably explains how the platform is both a key pillar within the initiative’s structure – and its direct beneficiary. With BRI, AliExpress can act as a market disruptor, growing significantly while knowingly and intelligently enabling small and midsized enterprises (SMEs) to develop beyond China’s borders. getAbstract recommends this perceptive look at the symbiotic relationship between the company and China’s Belt and Road policy.
