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Ask HN: Technical details behind scaling Silk Road? (1 "employee", $200M sales?)
2 points by MechanicalTwerk 3077 days ago
Besides tor, bitcoin, etc, does anyone know what other technologies (langs, frameworks, hosting) Ross Ulbricht used to build and scale Silk Road to an estimated $200M in sales [1]? Did he have help from anyone else? Seems pretty crazy that one person was able to scale a marketplace to that size.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-bitcoin-trial-silkroad/corrected-u-s-sharply-reduces-silk-roads-estimated-sales-volume-idUSL1N0UT1PJ20150120