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- Nicholas De Leon
- The Beginning
- Silk Road Rising
- Cocaine, Undercover Cops and Bounties
- Silk Road’s Legacy and The Free Ross Campaign
Ulbricht has claimed that when he started working on Silk Road in 2010, it was never his intention to enable the creation of the black market it would become. The recent Penn State University graduate had just earned his master’s in science and was struggling to make an impact with his entrepreneurial efforts. The used-book startup he joined with h...
Silk Road’s fame had escaped the confines of its underground coterie and was creeping into the lens of pop culture’s scandalous gaze when a June 2011 profile of the marketplace by Gawker brought it into the limelight. This was good for business, as account registration surged. But it also meant Silk Road was increasingly on the government’s radar, ...
By 2013, the site’s success was reaching critical mass and the person acting as DPR was faced with critical ultimatums. When a Silk Road administrator, Curtis Clark Green, was arrested for cocaine possession, undercover agents got their hands on the first human link to the site. The head of the task force that arrested Green, Carl Force, took over ...
“The government did not produce a single witness to testify firsthand that Ulbricht authored any of the communications attributed to DPR. It was all digital, created and transmitted on an anonymous, untraceable internet network.” — Joshua Dratel, criminal defense attorney Ulbricht’s legal defense appealed his case in 2016 on the grounds that prosec...
Dec 22, 2017 · Bitcoin's dramatic rise in value in 2017 captured the media's attention, but the currency isn't always safe from hackers, or even a failed hard drive. Consumer Reports looks at whether...
Aug 14, 2024 · The U.S. government Wednesday moved 10,000 Silk Road-related seized bitcoin { {BTC}} to Coinbase Prime, the exchange giant's institutional platform, blockchain data by Arkham Intelligence...
Nov 4, 2020 · Almost $1bn (£772m) in Bitcoin linked to the notorious Silk Road website is being transferred, analysts say. The Silk Road was an online black market, selling everything from drugs to...
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Oct 6, 2013 · When online black market Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht was arrested last week the FBI seized around 26,000 in Bitcoin — now revealed, the FBI's Bitcoin "wallet" address is the target of small...