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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
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The Silk Road wasn’t just a digital drug cartel. It was a highly lucrative start-up with a lot of optionality.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
Ross Ulbricht (@RealRossU) didn’t sell drugs—he built an anonymous, free, and open platform on Tor called Silk Road.
Silk Road sold apparel, art, books, collectibles, computer equipment, electronics, herbs, and yeah—drugs. But according to friends who used it, Silk Road was arguably the safest way drugs were ever sold:... See more
out on June 5 when Senator Chuck Schumer of New York held a heavily covered news conference, at which he decried the brazen business of Silk Road and called for prosecutors to shut it down. He described Bitcoin as an “online form of money laundering used to disguise the source of money, and to disguise who’s both selling and buying the drug.”
Nathaniel Popper • Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
If you don’t know who Ross Ulbricht is listen to his only interview @BitcoinMagazine recorded with him from prison. They put him in the hole as retribution for doing it, so we took the video down. Now we can share again.
Warning: you will cry like a b*tch
David Bailey🇵🇷 $1.0mm/btc is the floorx.comRoss Ulbricht was supposed to be protected by section 230, as he is not responsible for what other people did on his website. This is why Mark Zuckerberg for instance is not in prison for the CP and trafficking on Meta. But what happened to Ross doesn’t really have anything to do with that and no, Ross wasn’t put on prison for “ordering a hit”,... See more
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