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    Default Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI



    http://nation.time.com/2013/10/04/a-...ed-by-the-fbi/

    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...




    ^^^ 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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    Default Re: Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI

    I've never heard of this site.

    I'm surprised it lasted so long

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    Default Re: Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI

    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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    Default Re: Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI

    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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    Default Re: Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI

    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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    Default Re: Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI

    Quote Originally Posted by 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.
    Thats 2.32 bitcoins for 100 valium. So that is like $230

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    Default Re: Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI

    Man why I just found out about this site now, why not earlier

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    Default Re: Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI

    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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    Default Re: Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI

    Quote Originally Posted by jazz873
    Thats 2.32 bitcoins for 100 valium. So that is like $230
    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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    Default Re: Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI

    Quote Originally Posted by L.Kizzle
    There was a good thread on the underground internet about a year or two ago. Anyone remember, I tried searching for it?
    i can't find it either

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    Default Re: Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI

    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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    Default Re: Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI

    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Hero
    How the hell do you pay for a cup of coffee, if 1 bit coin is 127$
    Bitcoins can be broken into fractions, for a cup of coffee you would pay like .01 bitcoin.

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    Default Re: Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI

    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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    Default Re: Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI

    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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    Default Re: Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI

    Is this guy that tried to hire assassins, but was talking to an FBI agent?

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