Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI
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pretty amazing story
TL;DR:
29 year old creates online black market via underground web created by government that hides your identy. Site sells everything illegal you can think of (drugs, guns, fake documents, even contract murder) and makes over $1 billion in just 2 years time. The guy ends up on FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. Gets paranoid, tries to cover his tracks by killing others, gets caught.
it's crazy that all this happened within just 2 years...
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^^^ Ross Ulbricht, the site's creator, online went by the name "Dread Pirate Roberts"
He actually grew up in Texas and went to college in Dallas
just some random 29 year old web geek that within 2 years got Pablo Escobar status in the drug world
crazy
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I've never heard of this site.
I'm surprised it lasted so long
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Wtf!?? Yoo, is the FBI going after those who frequently purchase from this site or no? They're only after Dread right?
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Deep Web always intriguing. Its funny how the Governments and most criminal activity are all closely interacted with each other on the web. people would say theres no difference between the criminals and the governments.
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Wait a minute... Is that $2.32 for 100 valium? That is insane. You could make thousands and thousands of dollars just piecing those things out for $2-$3 each on any college campus in America.
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[QUOTE=RedBlackAttack]Wait a minute... Is that $2.32 for 100 valium? That is insane. You could make thousands and thousands of dollars just piecing those things out for $2-$3 each on any college campus in America.[/QUOTE]
Thats 2.32 bitcoins for 100 valium. So that is like $230
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Man why I just found out about this site now, why not earlier :(
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There was a good thread on the underground internet about a year or two ago. Anyone remember, I tried searching for it?
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[QUOTE=jazz873]Thats 2.32 bitcoins for 100 valium. So that is like $230[/QUOTE]
Ok, that makes more sense. That's probably about street value... Maybe a little cheaper depending on where you're from.
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[QUOTE=L.Kizzle]There was a good thread on the underground internet about a year or two ago. Anyone remember, I tried searching for it?[/QUOTE]
i can't find it either
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Why is the guy in trouble for creating a marketplace for this stuff?
Shouldn't the feds go after the people selling?
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[QUOTE=Anti Hero]How the hell do you pay for a cup of coffee, if 1 bit coin is 127$[/QUOTE]
Bitcoins can be broken into fractions, for a cup of coffee you would pay like .01 bitcoin.
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What I don't get is if it's completely anonymous, how do you actually make the sell? At some point there has to be an exchange of addresses or something.
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And that Ketamine seems way overpriced. We used to just go to Mexico and get prescriptions from 'pharmacists' there for really cheap.
PS- don't do special K. Probably the worst high I've ever had.
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Is this guy that tried to hire assassins, but was talking to an FBI agent?