Wing I / The Marketplaces
Click a plaque to open the case fileWing II / Ransom & State Actors
Loud exhibits. Bring hearing protection.Wing III / The Modern Scam Floor
Recently acquired. Still warm.Silk Road, 2011-2013
The original darknet marketplace and the reason a generation believed cryptocurrency was anonymous. Ross Ulbricht was convicted in 2015; the FBI seized roughly 174,000 bitcoin tied to the operation.
Curator's note: Silk Road never touched Monero. It ran on Bitcoin, and the public ledger is precisely what convicted it. Monero shipped in April 2014, seven months after the seizure. Every exhibit in Wing I is what happened once the criminals read the court filings.
$CRIME is a joke. It has no product, no revenue, no roadmap, and no connection whatsoever to any person, market, group or agency named in this museum. Nothing here endorses any of it. Nothing here is financial advice. Assume the number goes down.
Exhibit text is drawn from public indictments, court filings, sanctions listings and government press releases. Figures are prosecutors' and investigators' estimates and should be read as claims, not verdicts. Several cases remain pending; nobody named here is presumed guilty by us.