This is super interesting. I remember at the Allwine trial being gobsmacked this guy gave evidence about a Bitcoin address and had no idea what he was talking about. If the defence had called their own expert he would have been torn to shreds
Say NO to swasticars
Love how media are calling kidnappings of crypto holders being forced to transfer under threat of violence 'Wrench Attacks' - this XKCD cybersecurity classic finally going mainstream 👇
A great hour-long chat about all things Dark Web with Richard Fidler
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
I have set up a reddit thread on the r/silkroad sub to combat misinformation and provide people with facts about all facets of Silk Road
www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/c...
You definitely look more graceful in there than I ever did! 😂
I stopped being excited about it. Couple of dead de facto partners didn't help. I hear it is much safer nowadays though.
I found the tunnel fun, but a whole different way of flying. Did you take it up for a particular reason?
Around 800 jumps back in the day, but only tried the tunnel a couple of times
Do you jump Runa?
This offer is still open. Please, STOP with the misinformation
Please stop with the misinformation. Silk Road sold drugs. It never sold child porn or assassins. Weapons were very short-lived before the community voted to ban them.
Silk Road's rules stated 'you may sell anything the purpose of which is not to harm or defraud another person'
A murder is a personal service. People who order hits rarely want more than one. Therefore, as the whole idea of the dark web is the anonymity it offers, what possible incentive does a "hitman" have for carrying out the hit once they have the #bitcoin?
There has never been a genuine murder-for-hire site and likely never will be. It doesn't make sense as a business model.
People who buy drugs are repeat customers, so the sellers provide good service and quality product to keep their customers coming back. Drugs are also easily sent in the mail
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Darknet markets have run continuously since Silk Road shut down. Many of them dwarfed Silk Road in size, and added things like stolen credit cards and personal information to the items you could buy. The current market leader is many times larger than Silk Road.
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How many suckers will they get?
Also, the 69,370 bitcoin was only last month released by SCUSA to the USG to be sold, after years of various whackjobs trying to convince the DOJ they had a claim on the coins. Not sold yet.
Great piece, but the author @gregolear.bsky.social conflates two stories - the theft of Silk Road Bitcoin by Force and Bridges and the hack of 69,370 Bitcoin by 'Individual X'. This was the #bitcoin that Ross Ulbricht gave up his right to claim upon in order to wipe his debt. X is not Force/Bridges
The misinformation isn't helping anyone. Silk Road sold drugs. CSAM, murders for hire were explicitly banned.
Any others you can think of that I can add to the list?
3. James Ellingson, the man accused of being "redandwhite" aka "lucydrops" aka MIMM is due to face a 3-day extradition hearing next month. Among other things, it is alleged he scammed Silk Road out of around $750K by taking "hits" out on 5 people who didn't exist
eileenormsby.com/2023/05/19/t...
2. There is still another rogue USG / LE agent who has not been identified. 'alpacino' was initially thought to be another 'nym of Carl Mark Force, but that name was quietly dropped from his indictment
www.courthousenews.com/silk-road-de...
1. last month the USG was given the go-ahead by the courts to sell off the 69,370 #bitcoin (~$7bn) seized from "Individual X" who stole it from Silk Road in 2013. We still don't know who Individual X is.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/18607...
Things that are still ongoing in the Silk Road Saga. A thread:
Two days later, a similar post appeared on a Bitcointalk .org thread "A Heroin Store".
Bitcoin was $0.42.
Silk Road was born. And the rest is history.
On January 27 2011, a new forum member calling themselves ‘altoid’ registered on the Shroomery forums and wrote a message that would change the face of drug dealing and cryptocurrency forever.
#bitcoin #silkroad #RossUlbricht
US lawyers: The USG effectively agreed to deem Ross Ulbricht’s civil penalty paid in full in return for forfeiting any claim to the 69,370 BTC that 'Individual X' stole from Silk Road.
But if Ulbricht has been completely pardoned, doesn't that mean the civil penalty is voided?
No, just correcting misinformation when I see it.
When it came to weapons, they WERE offered for sale for a short time, until a huge debate ensued about whether weapons were items 'the purpose of which was to harm another person' thus against the site's rules. Consequently banned from sale
I'm not sure what you're saying here. It's not an argument, it is a fact.
People are making all sorts of wild claims about what was sold on Silk Road. I'm just stating the facts
It's true he tried to engage a hitman, but he was never successful. Hits were never offered on the site
It was primarily a drug market. The discussion about organs was a philosophical one - none were ever offered for sale. Hits were never offered. Weapons allowed for a few months until the community voted to ban them. The site's rule was nothing 'the purpose of which is to harm or defraud another'
