Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Silk Road had about 12,000 items listed on the website that ranged from counterfeit documents to extacy and marijuana.
Alphabay has more than 300,000 items listed and more than 7.000.000 transactions! 25 times more items and is growing rapidly !!!
There are hundreds of labs in China that are cooking up synthetic drugs that are then sold at Alphabay. These drugs can be 30 to 50 times more powerful than heroin!
AlphaBay has enabled Monero and Ethereum payments. ZCash can be added to this list as of July 1st. This wil drive up the price of ZCash in the coming months.
The Global Drug Survey shows that more users are buying their drugs on the dark net. 25% of UK drug users purchasing their narcotics using the dark net! US 13% !
Source: https://www.globaldrugsurvey.com/
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865683454/The-rise-of-the-darknet-fuels-illicit-drug-trade.html