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The early days of ShadowCrew
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Brett was starting to see some IP addresses of users on the site that resolved to .gov domains, meaning they could be feds, but he kept it going. Seven years later, Silk Road was making millions of dollars doing basically the same thing, because ShadowCrew became a marketplace for illegal things.
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