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CoinDesk (@CoinDesk): SILK ROAD: 15 years ago today, Gawker writer Adrian Chen posted the first mainstream exposé of the Silk Road. Silk Road's membership jumped from rough…

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SILK ROAD: 15 years ago today, Gawker writer Adrian Chen posted the first mainstream exposé of the Silk Road. Silk Road's membership jumped from roughly a thousand users to over ten thousand almost overnight. $BTC's price was trading around $9.90 on June 1 and would spike to $29.58 within days as demand surged from new users flooding into the ecosystem.

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