Silk Road (history web)

SR Culture Rescued on BTC Since

352 days 14 hrs 25 mins 27 secs ago 🔒
⚔️ This 420 New Rescued On ETH ⚔️
🐪💨 420 PIECES NOW LIVE FOREVER ON BTC 🔒 | 3310 PIECES TO BE RESCUED ON ETH | 📦 👀

Thank you for visiting Silk Road Not Dead. The pieces presented here are a sneak peek of the collection. You can access the recovered Silk Road pages of these items by clicking on the images. Each collectible in this collection includes a link in its metadata that redirects collectors to the original vendor page. This makes the collection consist of 3,310 pieces and 3,310 links preserving those pages, their images, descriptions, and the old HTML code with which they were encoded and published on the dark web. This means that the collector of each piece not only owns the item but also the vendor page where it was presented. Silk Road Not Dead is a Dadaist work within the framework of Net Art, where digital artifacts that were once used for clandestine trade are now re-signified, elevating them into the realm of art to be traded in a different, yet equally free, market. Each publication is given not only commercial value but also cultural significance, transforming each piece (image/metadata/page) into a complex and original work that collectively forms a kind of historical multimedia installation. The images presented, along with the entire content of this collection, are in the public domain. Both the original authors of the posts and the creator of this project remain anonymous. This project is considered Dadaist due to its appropriation and re-signification of something that already exists, endowing it with its own characteristics. Just as Marcel Duchamp did in 1917 when he presented the most iconic piece of Dadaism in New York by turning a urinal into a museum-worthy artwork, Silk Road Not Dead disrupts the digital scene with a proposal that sparks debate on multiple topics—such as art, privacy, free trade, and the public domain of all expression. It enters a still-cautious digital landscape with a strange yet enlightening digital artifact that reveals one of the most intelligent, creative, and organized communities that ever existed. This collection is a tribute to all of them and an expression of true free trade and free choice. Silk Road Not Dead manifests itself in the light of the surface web without violating any national or international laws (copyright, data protection, privacy, censorship, and cybercrime). However, it highlights an imminent need for the reformulation of these laws to ensure true privacy, without hidden or disguised surveillance mechanisms, and consequently, absolute freedom of choice. We also reject the persecution of individuals for sharing digital content. Downloading or sharing culture should never be a crime. 🔥

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Drugs 11,575
    Cannabis 2,731
    Dissociatives 224
    Ecstasy 1,071
    Opioids 627
    Other 544
    Precursors 109
    Prescription 2,755
    Psychedelics 1,391
    Stimulants 1,536
Apparel 450
Art 4
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Books 981
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Custom Orders 96
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Drug paraphernalia 369
Electronics 140
Erotica 589
Fireworks 11
Food 12
Forgeries 122
Hardware 34
Herbs &Supplements 11
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Jewelry 106
Lab Supplies 55
Lotteries &games 55
Medical 41
Money 189
Musical instruments 3
Packaging 73
Services 100
Sporting goods 3
Tickets 1
Weight loss 80
Writing 4

The closure of "Tragic Eden" on Bitcoin @MEonBTC💀, where almost all the trading volume of our collection was concentrated, impacted the entire Ordinals ecosystem 🤯, making it clear that art cannot depend on a single marketplace, and from our perspective, neither on a single protocol. Given the Internet archaeological record that our pieces represent 😎, our intention is to preserve them without exclusive dependencies, ideally creating a trading environment within our own website silkroadnotdead.com 🤌, allowing users to choose any payment method they prefer. Although we are still working on this stage 🚁, we believe it is important to begin communicating and carrying forward this rescue and its protection in the most comprehensive way possible. 🪚👼🏻 We believe BTC is the most symbolic chain to host this work, yes, but we also believe that this collection should not be secured on a single chain, or rather, a single protocol 🫴. On the contrary, we believe that this historical record — once hidden and persecuted by control regimes when it operated in illegality — is now FREE to express itself and expand in multiple directions ⛓️‍💥, as both a historical and educational record of what happened, and for the artistic value these publications represent as recontextualized works within the net art movement. ✨ For this reason, this 420, Silk Road Not Dead expands to Ethereum, rescuing 3310 pieces on the mother chain, yes. 👀 This action is part of our main mission: to protect this legacy and expand the boundaries of this culture, highlighting the idea of being able to choose absolutely everything with total freedom — from what you want to buy, to where you choose to buy it, to the currency you choose to use. 🕊️

THIS 420 BTC collectors will be able to self-inscribe the same number of pieces they currently hold. ⚖️ For example, if you have 2, you can self-inscribe 2 more in BTC. If you have 10, you can self-inscribe 10 more. ⚠️ Before doing so, please DM us for more details. ⚠️ In addition, BTC holders will be added to the whitelist for the Ethereum launch, allowing them to mint the same number of pieces on ETH for free 👀. DM us for more details📩. Deadline for BTC holders self inscriptions and WL: 4/18 The price in red on each piece in this collection reflects the price these products had on the last day Silk Road was online (October 2, 2013), when 1 BTC was worth $125. Meanwhile, the price to acquire each of these pieces will be determined by supply and demand in the digital art market, not by the documented value in the images. The appropriation of these anonymously created, their reinterpretation as digital artworks, and their preservation on BTC /ETH confer upon them the status of original pieces. This ensures their free commercialization, modification, and distribution without bureaucratic barriers, establishing them as part of humanity’s heritage and the history of the internet.