The Silk Road was a darknet market best known as a platform for selling illegal goods. It operated as a Tor hidden service to exclude traffic monitoring, which was convenient for criminals to deliver their services through the network. Silk Road was launched in February 2011 and already had 10,000 products for sale 70% of which were drugs by March 2013.
Although there were a lot of illegal products on the site, there were also restrictions: child pornography, stolen credit cards, assassinations, and weapons of any type were banned for sale and exchange. The site provided some legal goods as well, such as apparel, art, books, cigarettes, erotica, jewelry, and writing services.
The Silk Road was shut down in October 2013 by the FBI, whose agents also arrested Ross William Ulbricht, the founder of the system. There were two attempts to recreate the Silk Road, but both of them have been unsuccessful. The latest news on the Silk Road promises no further attempts.
Source: Cointelegraph
There have also been some reports that the current sharp price drop in Bitcoin and the entire crypto market is as a result of the 100,000 BTC that was allegedly dumped from a wallet associated with the Silk Road.
People like you just throw some BS stuff around because you want to make sense of the price. Same as folks that were telling it is the MTGOX account that is selling the coins etc. You are simply trying to make sense of the situation. But reality is pretty simple. People were buying in because they saw easy money and saw bitcoin and crypto scene as some get quick rich scheme. When everybody was buying prices pumped and you see that bubble, everybody thought it was going up and this is the reason why they bought. Now when market is in bearish position you even see less volume because people don't believe in bitcoin because they see the price is falling. Mostly what happens is pshycology of an investor, if you understand that you will understand why things happen. Yes crypto market is prune to manipulation and pump and dump schemes and that is how it is.