Why is the Silk Road website so slow to load?

The silk road uses the Tor network to protect it's users. Tor is called"The Deep Web" it makes your computer anonymous through a network of proxies and complex cryptography. It's slow primarily because it's a free service and people are donating there free time and hardware to support it. read more

How to Speed up the Silk Browser Open your browser, hit the menu button at the bottom of your screen, then hit Settings. You will see the options you need to speed up Silk. read more

How to Access the Silk Road 3.0 (3.1) Okay, so now we’re in the Tor browser. The next step will be to access the site itself. The Silk Road 3.0 (3.1) onion url is just here: http://silkroad7rn2puhj.onion/. Remember, the link won’t go anywhere if you’re not using the Tor browser. Anyways, the first thing you’ll see is the login screen. read more

The default setting of the Kindle Fire browser is set to ‘desktop’ mode. This creates two problems. Flash is automatically enabled on this setting and Flash chokes the Silk browser and slows it down. The second problem is running a desktop browser on a 7 inch screen. It’s just not efficient and it slows down the browser. read more

Well, when you create an account in the new Silk Road 3.1 you will notice there is a message and form to fill in and reclaim your lost funds from Silk Road 3.0 and silk road 3.1. I think this again shows a good sign of commitment to being a trustworthy market, most other market admins would have just vanished with all your bitcoins, especially with BTC at the current levels. read more