rofl <3Originally Posted by Rick O'Shea
And he pleads not guilty. FUCKER
Bitcoin at $198.00 today. Lol
rofl <3And he pleads not guilty. FUCKER
Bitcoin at $198.00 today. Lol
As for snitches well a lot of people will do stuff to get a reduced sentence it just becomes a thing where if they snitch will they have to live the rest of their life in fear that each day could be their last?And he pleads not guilty. FUCKER
Bitcoin at $198.00 today. Lol
Ross Ulbricht has really good/scummy representation but still I'm not sure how his lawyer will defend this.
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/tor...hts-new-lawyer
FBI now controls largest bitcoin wallet valued at over 25 million.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygree...-of-silk-road/
That is why the coin has actually gone up a lot in value since the Silk Road bust. Bitcoins thrive on this because only so many are in circulation so the demand goes up when a nice chunk of them get seized like this as long as people are still wanting them which they are.
While many might think why the hell does Ross Ulbricht have such massive bitcoin accounts the thing is when you get as big as Silk Road did it's not like he could move tens of millions of dollars out without raising suspicion which he didn't want to do.
http://www.ibtimes.com/silk-roads-bi...ormant-1435698
Silk Road’s Biggest Heroin Dealer, Steven 'Nod' Sadler, Was An FBI Informant
According to new court documents, Nod, Silk Road’s top heroin dealer, had become an FBI informant following his arrest in July. The Smoking Gun reports that Steven Sadler, 40, known as Nod on Silk Road, was among the biggest wholesale dealers of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.
Silk Road, an infamous black market that operated in the Deep Web and was accessible through the Tor network, was shut down earlier this month, and its owner and operator, Ross Ulbricht, known as “Dread Pirate Roberts,” was arrested in San Francisco. The documents obtained by the Smoking Gun revealed that Sadler, known on Silk Road as “Nod,” became an FBI informant after his Seattle home was raided.
Sadler appeared in court as part of a hearing on Oct. 2, and he has a history of drug abuse, including admitting he had used a prescription painkiller, heroin and methamphetamine prior to the hearing. As part of his bond, Sadler was ordered not to take any illegal drugs or prescription pills that were not prescribed to him. The investigating officer ordered Sadler to cease such activity, and police conducted a home inspection on Oct. 9. Sadler was scheduled to undergo a health evaluation on Oct. 16. The probation officer assigned to Sadler recommended to the court that no action should be taken but did suggest increased health evaluations, outpatient treatment and a referral for a professional assessment.
On July 31, Sadler’s home was raided after a yearlong investigation by the FBI. According to the court documents, “It is further alleged that this offense involved one kilogram or more of a mixture or substance containing heroin, 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine and 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine.”
As reported by the Smoking Gun, on Silk Road, Nod had over 1,400 user reviews, and investigators tracked Sadler down by intercepting deliveries sent from various Seattle post offices and making undercover purchases. Earlier this month, Sadler, and his co-conspirator Jenna White, pleaded not guilty to five charges: conspiracy to distribute heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine; distribution of heroin and cocaine; two counts for distribution of cocaine; and possession of heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine.
As noted by Gawker, a Reddit user claimed he was a former customer of Nod’s and was arrested. Sadler was working with the FBI for at least two months prior to the shutdown of Silk Road, but no details were revealed in regard to his cooperation. However, the Smoking Gun speculates it could have involved deciphering Silk Road client lists and transactions and continuing to work as Nod in order to gain more information on suppliers and customers.
OCTOBER 21--One of the top narcotics dealers on Silk Road, the recently shuttered online drug bazaar, secretly began cooperating with federal agents after his Seattle-area home was raided in late-July, The Smoking Gun has learned.
The disclosure that Steven Sadler, known online as “Nod,” was flipped will likely cause significant distress for his large Silk Road customer base, which included retail and wholesale buyers of heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine. Additionally, suppliers for Sadler, 40, will likely also be concerned that they have been exposed to law enforcement scrutiny.
Sadler’s cooperation was disclosed at a brief U.S. District Court hearing earlier this month, according to an official audiotape of the proceeding before Magistrate Judge Brian Tsuchida.
The hastily arranged court appearance for Sadler (seen at right) was prompted by the FBI’s arrest a day earlier of Ross Ulbricht, who has been charged with being the mastermind behind the Silk Road site, which operated on the “darknet" (or “deep web”). Simultaneous to Ulrich’s bust, federal investigators shut down the two-year-old site, which relied on the anonymizing tool Tor to shield both vendors and patrons.
During the October 2 hearing, federal prosecutor Thomas Woods told Tsuchida that “Mr. Sadler has been cooperating, working for the government for the past two months.” Referring to “unusual circumstances,” Woods noted that “through reasons unrelated to” Sadler, his cooperation “abruptly came to an end this morning.” Sadler’s lawyer told Tsuchida that her client was in “constant communication with the government.”
While Woods did not further detail Sadler’s cooperation, it appears likely that he would have been required to assist agents in the analysis of his computer data, customer lists, or financial records. In similar cases, agents have also assumed the identity of cooperators and, posing as the arrested individual, carried on online interactions with hoodwinked customers and suppliers.
Woods--who did not mention Ulbricht’s October 1 arrest or the subsequent shuttering of Silk Road--did not seek Sadler’s detention on a criminal complaint charging him and coconspirator Jenna White with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine (a felony charge carrying a maximum 20-year prison term).
As part of his bond conditions, Sadler--who has an extensive recent history of drug abuse--was ordered not to use any controlled substances while on pretrial release. He admitted violating those terms about ten days later by using Suboxone, an opiate inhibitor, that was prescribed to a roommate. He also acknowledged using methamphetamine the morning of his October 2 arraignment and heroin one day earlier.
According to his Silk Road vendor profile, Sadler’s sterling customer feedback included more than 1400 reviews posted over a four-month period earlier this year. Sadler, who purchased a Silk Road vendor account in June 2012, was “ranked in the top 1% of sellers,” according to the criminal complaint.
Sadler agreed to cooperate with federal investigators after his Bellevue apartment was raided July 31 by postal inspectors and Department of Homeland Security agents. Investigators seized heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, a .45 caliber pistol, cash, and “vacuum and heat-sealing equipment” from Sadler’s residence, according to court records.
Agents nabbed Sadler after a year-long investigation that focused on narcotics being sent to customers nationwide from the Seattle area. The drug shipments were contained in Express Mail packages sent by Sadler and White from nearly 40 separate post offices. In addition to interdicting suspect packages, federal agents attached tracking devices to autos used by Sadler and White, and made undercover purchases on Silk Road from “Nod.”
Investigators also were aided by a confidential informant who agreed to cooperate after agents seized several packages mailed to her by Silk Road heroin dealers. In a TSG interview, the woman--a business owner in her thirties--said she had made several heroin purchases from “Nod” and allowed investigators to take over her Silk Road account to make undercover drug purchases.
A self-described “junkie” who has been clean since May, the informant said she helped a postal inspector navigate Silk Road and explained how to fund an account with Bitcoin, the virtual currency used for purchases. When an undercover drug purchase failed to arrive, a postal inspector--apparently sensing a rip-off--sent the woman an e-mail seeking advice as to how to address the missing Express Mail parcel with the narcotics seller. When the informant referred to the package “going missing,” the inspector replied, “I know the package is not missing, I work for the post office…hahaha. They just have not sent it.”
In addition to identifying Express Mail packages containing narcotics, postal inspectors last year also seized a parcel sent by Sadler that contained $3200. The package, which was opened after a drug-detection dog “alerted to the presence of narcotics,” was addressed to Michael Shapiro, a 28-year-old California man.
The cash shipment was headed for a $6 million dollar Bel Air home (7400-square-feet with five bedrooms and eight bathrooms) owned by Shapiro’s in-laws. Pictured at left, Shapiro declined to answer TSG questions about the package sent to him by Sadler. Until about a month again, Shapiro worked for the National Football League as an ad operations manager in the NFL’s Culver City office.
While Sadler’s narcotics operation was headquartered in his Bellevue apartment, investigators reported that an undercover cocaine buy in mid-June was mailed to a cooperating informant from West Hollywood, California. Around that time, “Nod” sent a message to the informant’s Silk Road account reporting that he was sending the coke “from the road.”
Sadler and White were named earlier this month in a five-count indictment charging them with conspiracy to distribute narcotics, distribution of cocaine and heroin, and possession of cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine. They pleaded not guilty to the felony charges during an arraignment last Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle. (6 pages)
Ryland posted our hero's picture in his I will be playing 98 hours online thread. I spun this little fraud scenario as Bitcoins were going parabolic toward $200.That is why the coin has actually gone up a lot in value since the Silk Road bust. Bitcoins thrive on this because only so many are in circulation so the demand goes up when a nice chunk of them get seized like this as long as people are still wanting them which they are.
While many might think why the hell does Ross Ulbricht have such massive bitcoin accounts the thing is when you get as big as Silk Road did it's not like he could move tens of millions of dollars out without raising suspicion which he didn't want to do.
I can't believe I didn't get a rise out of anyone. The perfect crime - as long as you have an exit plan if things go wrong. Perhaps plastic surgery and a new identity. That might be a not be a bad option even if the scam works.
Bitcoins tickling $200. You think the kid had the sense to take a little off the table?
A savvy scammer would be wrestling with the temptation to trade the players funds on account.
I still don't get all the history here with the cast of characters. But I will admit to having my own impure thoughts.
Sell Bitcoins after break of $200 and retracement below. Watch for $200 resistance and sell. Buy back player account Bitcoins at lower price and roll around in the profit.
As it turns out, I got lucky with the call as it did break $200 in an exhaustion move and retraced below $200 which looks like a safe stop on the upside.
If the "kid in the glasses" took my suggestion he might have another similar stack.
Last edited by Sanlmar; 10-26-2013 at 11:20 PM.
Interesting timeline/cliffnotes of the whole Silkroad thing:
http://antilop.cc/sr/
LOL they just rolled out silkroad 2.0.
http://www.vice.com/read/good-news-d...k-road-is-back
"In May 2012, the following users have high privileges on Silk Road forum and are able to carry administrative tasks:
DigitalAlch - Administrator.
Chronicpain - Global Moderator and Wiki administrator
Nomad bloodbath - Global Moderator.
Limetless - Global Moderator.
squidShephar - Global Administrator."
Well now it all makes sense.
Seriously this tag character limit is tilting me....what's the point of having tags if you can't even say "drk buys viagra and dyes his pubes"
Just make them separate tags dumbass.
"You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole; you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."
Dude. The tag is perfect the way it is. What your asking me to do is the equivalent of me telling you to find a woman with a vagina and have her wear a strap on instead of you banging a lovely ladyboy. And I have too much respect for you to ask you to compromise your values.Just make them separate tags dumbass.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/..._medium=social
The alleged murder target of a secretive online drug kingpin was a 47-year-old semi-pro poker player and self-proclaimed former heroin addict who was caught with $27,000 worth of cocaine.
On Thursday, court documents filed in Maryland district court revealed that Curtis Clark Green admitted to being an administrator of the Silk Road, an anonymous online drug marketplace. Known online as “chronicpain,” Green was a vocal member of the drug community who worked closely with site leader, the Dread Pirate Roberts, and frequently shared personal anecdotes and detailed advice on using and dealing illegal substances.
Early last month, federal authorities detained the man they believed to be the Dread Pirate Roberts, arresting 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht in San Francisco and accusing him of narcotics trafficking, money laundering and hiring hitmen for the murder of two people. One of those two was Green, a grandfather and former paramedic who also sold oxycodone and other painkillers on Silk Road.
“[I] never killed a man or had one killed before,” Ulbricht allegedly said online as he was looking to find a hitman to take care of the employee. “But it is the right move in this case.”
According to court documents, an undercover agent began communicating with Ulbricht in April 2012, offering to sell a “substantial” quantity of drugs to a vendor who could then list the narcotics on Silk Road. By December of that year, Green had become involved, allegedly working on Ulbricht’s behalf as a middleman. He agreed to accept a shipment of one kilogram of cocaine–worth $27,000–which would then be given to the vendor.
On Jan. 17, 2013, federal agents paid a visit to Green’s white, one-story home in Spanish Fork, Utah where he was found to be in possession of those drugs.
The Hit
Upon hearing of chronicpain’s arrest, Ulbricht is accused of seeking out someone who could punish Green. Based on online conversations highlighted in court documents, Ulbricht told an undercover agent that his employee had not only been arrested, but had also stolen funds from other users. He then requested that the undercover agent help him find someone to hurt Green for his mistakes.
Only a few days later, authorities say that Ulbricht had changed his order from “execute rather than torture,” citing potential issues if a punished employee were to approach and inform authorities. The undercover agent agreed, asking the supposed Silk Road leader to pay two installments of $40,000 for the murder. The first payment came on Feb. 4, 2013, wired from an account with the now-defunct Technocash Limited in Australia to a Capital One Bank account in Washington, D.C.
Some time around that date, authorities informed Green of the situation. As the undercover agent engaged the Dread Pirate Roberts with details of the planned torture and murder, others worked with the Silk Road employee to stage the events. On Feb. 16 photos of Green’s staged torture were sent to Roberts. Less than a week later a fake photo of Green’s supposedly dead body was also delivered to which Ulbricht allegedly replied: “I’m pissed I had to kill him… but what’s done is done.” On Mar. 1, the second $40,000 installment was sent to the Capital One Bank account.
and from Al Jazeera:
FBI sting and faked death may have played key role in Silk Road demise
http://america.aljazeera.com/article...nsilkroad.htmlCurtis Green, a 47-year-old Utah resident, was a high-level administrator of the billion-dollar online black market.
Prosecutors say Silk Road, known by its distinctive logo, generated $1.2 billion in sales
Federal investigators caught a high-level employee of Silk Road, the billion-dollar online black market, in a drug sting and then faked his torture and murder as part of a two-year Baltimore-based investigation into the website that culminated in the arrest of its architect last month, according to newly filed court documents.
Curtis Clark Green — known by his Silk Road aliases “chronicpain” and “Flush” — pleaded guilty Thursday in a federal court in Maryland to conspiracy to distribute cocaine, 10 months after a horde of federal agents raided his home in Spanish Fork, Utah, and caught him with a kilogram of the substance, which he had unwittingly ordered from an undercover agent in Maryland.
The revelation that federal authorities had arrested one of Silk Road’s few administrators, a man who had access to the financial accounts of all of the site’s members, including the creator himself, fills in a piece of the mystery behind the fall of one of the 21st century’s most notorious online enterprises. Green’s faked death has given rise, among Silk Road observers and some former participants, to speculation that he may have cooperated with investigators. That would provide a key clue to how the government was able to shut down — at least temporarily — an online marketplace shrouded in secrecy and layers of anonymizing software.
Through Green’s public record and trail of online posts under several aliases, a fuller portrait emerges of a man who had endured federal drug prosecution once before, filed for bankruptcy, abandoned an attempt to start a business and suffered from a debilitating medical condition. His case also shows how one simple misstep — using his home address when he served as a middleman on a Silk Road cocaine purchase — may have helped bring down the entire operation.
The alleged architect of Silk Road, Ross William Ulbricht, was arrested in San Francisco on Oct. 1 and made his first appearance in a federal court in New York City on Wednesday. He faces a variety of charges in Maryland and New York, including attempted witness murder and conspiracy to launder money, distribute drugs and engage in computer hacking. His lawyer, Joshua Dratel, has said Ulbricht is not the man authorities say he is — the Silk Road creator known until recently only by his alias, “Dread Pirate Roberts” — and that he will seek bail at a hearing on Nov. 21.
Green was not the first person to be arrested as a Silk Road drug dealer; Baltimore resident Jacob George has admitted that he told Homeland Security investigators about his sales as early as January 2012. Nor was Green the biggest alleged dealer to end up in custody; Steven Sadler, a Washington state resident who has cooperated with the government since July, was a top dealer known by the alias “nod.” But Green was certainly the most important.
Unfortunate middleman
As an administrator, Green’s plea agreement states, he was paid a salary and given responsibilities that included dealing with buyers’ and sellers’ complaints, resolving their disputes and watching out for possible law enforcement investigations. He could see messages passed between users, details of their transactions, and accounts held by users and administrators alike in the semi-anonymous virtual currency known as bitcoin, the only means of exchange on Silk Road.
Soon after being hired in November 2012, prosecutors say, he was tasked by Ulbricht, whom he had never met, to find a buyer for large quantities of drugs being offered by a Silk Road member who was, in reality, a federal agent working for a Baltimore-based organized crime and drug trafficking task force code-named Marco Polo. The task force had begun investigating Silk Road in September 2011.
On Dec. 9, Green contacted the agent to say he had found a vendor, naming a Silk Road user known to the agent as “an established seller of drugs.” Green decided to serve as an intermediary — a decision that is not explained in the plea agreement — and the vendor provided the agent with Green’s address. On Jan. 17, a U.S. Postal Service inspector, working undercover, delivered the shipment, and soon afterward Green’s home was raided by agents from the Marco Polo task force, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Homeland Security and the Secret Service, as well as by additional postal inspectors, who found him with the opened package of cocaine.
The agents also seized $18,000 in cash, a MacBook Pro, a Samsung Epic cell phone and an account with an online bitcoin exchange called Mt. Gox.
No record of Green’s arrest could be found on the Utah County sheriff’s website that keeps such information, but according to the Utah County Jail, he was booked in Spanish Fork, where public records show he had maintained a home since 1993, and charged with possession of cocaine. He was released the following day under a $2,500 bail and does not appear to have faced any charges or appeared in court until Oct. 28, when federal prosecutors in Maryland first filed an information against him. He is currently out of custody and will be sentenced in February, the Maryland U.S. attorney’s office said. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a potential maximum of 40 years.
Witness to a "murder"
Ulbricht, prosecutors allege in a separate indictment against him, became concerned after Green’s arrest. He told the undercover agent posing as the cocaine seller that Green, whom Ulbricht knew only by an alias, had stolen funds from other Silk Road users and been arrested. On Jan. 26, he asked the agent to find Green and beat him until he returned the stolen bitcoins. The next day he changed his mind, asking the agent if he could kill Green, according to the indictment.
Ulbricht and the agent negotiated the hit for 20 days, prosecutors say, before the agent sent Ulbricht “staged photographs” of Green being tortured. Three days later, on Feb. 19, the agent emailed to say that Green had been killed; two days after that, he sent a “staged photograph that purported to depict (Green’s) dead body,” explaining that Green had died of “’asphyxiation/heart rupture’ while being tortured.” The agent later claimed that Green’s body had been “completely destroyed to eliminate evidence.”
Though he is not identified by name as the “dead” administrator in the indictment against Ulbricht, and the Maryland U.S. attorney’s office would not confirm that the two were the same person, Green has reportedly confirmed his role as the Silk Road administrator in the staged photographs. In a statement to Joshua Davis, a co-founder of Epic magazine who has sold movie rights to a story about Silk Road, he said that “the agents took photos as they faked my murder.”
Green denied ever stealing funds from Ulbricht or any Silk Road user and said he had started paying attention to the black market because of its reliance on bitcoins, which interested him.
“Initially I just chatted on the forum, and that led to DPR hiring me to work for SR,” he wrote, referring to Ulbricht’s alias and the initials for Silk Road. “I never used illegal drugs and I never intended to be directly involved in illegal drug deals.”
Multiple phone numbers listed in public records for Green’s Spanish Fork house and his business, Anytime Airport Shuttle, could not be reached or have been disconnected, and his Salt Lake City-based attorney, Mary Corporon, declined to comment on Thursday.
A history of "chronicpain"
Before his name was revealed in court filings, Green had been linked to Silk Road in recent days by an anonymous close observer of the Silk Road case who was intrigued by the staged killing and published a compilation of public Internet records that connected the incident to Silk Road administrator chronicpain and, after some sleuthing, to Green. The observer posted their findings on the popular Internet forum Reddit under the username “lamoustache.”
“From all the indictments and complaints this case was one of the most interesting,” lamoustache wrote in an email to Al Jazeera, explaining that to it appeared “something really dodgy” had occurred.
According to public records, Green and his wife filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Utah in 1995, two years after moving to their new house. Writing on the Silk Road forums as chronicpain, he said he had once been in nursing school but did not finish his studies “due to an accident,” though he had worked as a paramedic for 20 years.
His airport shuttle business, which mostly delivered lost luggage, “could barely make a profit,” he wrote, and he eventually began working for his father’s company. He also competed, with a small amount of success, in some World Series of Poker events, and an online record of several winnings between $1,000 and $2,000 exists under his real name. Davis wrote that Green currently works “at a nonprofit dedicated to helping people with learning disabilities.”
In his writings, Green evinced an intimate knowledge of painkillers, and though his medical problem became a theme of his posts, he never fully explained it. Three email addresses registered to his shuttle company employ versions of the username “indolor,” an apparent reference to the Spanish word for pain.
"Technically, an 80mg oxycontin is equal to 40mg of opana ER. TAKEN ORALLY!! Now, if you snort them, 40mg of opana is 2 or 3 times the strength vs a snorted 80mg oxy,” he once wrote as chronicpain.
First brush with the law
Green also appears to have joined other drug information forums, such as Opiophile.org, under the username “pokergooch,” which also appears as an email address (pokergooch1966@yahoo.com) registered to Green’s shuttle business. Pokergooch and chronicpain shared a number of similarities: both once lived in Spain, recommended a specific cocktail of painkillers, noted that they did not smoke, and said they needed testosterone injections to compensate for a lack of libido caused by using opiates. Opiophile’s administrators banned the pokergooch account earlier this month, after lamoustache’s Reddit post linked Green to the Silk Road investigation.
Writing as pokergooch on Opiophile in 2009, Green described how he had seen a doctor six years earlier to help address his pain. Unable to find a specialist nearby, he sought one out in Las Vegas, where he traveled regularly. He did not tell his regular doctor that he was seeing the specialist, though he gave the specialist his doctor’s information and prescribing history. Not realizing that it was illegal to “prescription shop” without informing both doctors — and later discovering that his specialist might have broken the law himself — Green said he eventually came under investigation for insurance fraud by the FBI, which had been contacted by his insurance company.
He entered a plea in abeyance, which allowed the judge to dismiss his charges if he satisfied the demands of the court. But his wife, who he wrote had a “checkered past,” was made to plead guilty to two felonies and become an informant for the FBI and DEA.
A Utah news channel covered the case against Green and his wife in 2006, reporting that they had filled $25,000 in prescriptions in less than a year.
Green also appears to be on Twitter. A search for Curtis Green and Utah on Google brings up Silk Road’s distinctive image — a green-hued man riding a camel — and a link to an account called “ilovepoker” under Green’s full name. That account now lists its name as “cg,” and its most recent entry, written two days after the Reddit post connected Green to Silk Road, says, “Wow, I guess there are a lot of people that must have taken their tin foil hats off. Good grief ...”
End of the Silk Road?
On Oct. 6, after Ulbricht was arrested and the site shut down, a Silk Road vendor named “googleyed1,” who had been advertising the impending sale of “pure uncut Peruvian cocaine” two days before Green’s arrest, joined a thread discussing the investigation and claimed that he was the buyer who had arranged the cocaine deal with the federal agent and that chronicpain was the administrator named in the Maryland indictment who had helped arrange it. He said he believed that chronicpain had “turned informer.”
“The vendor … was indeed (an) undercover agent, and i knew this, but for some reason DPR tells me to make a purchase from him,” he wrote, using alias initials for Dread Pirate Roberts. “So (chronicpain) offered to be my reshipper and the sting ensued.”
Ulbricht, googleyed1 speculated, had been enticed by the commission he could earn on such a large shipment of cocaine, which federal authorities say was worth $27,000 in bitcoins.
In the months following Green’s arrest, federal authorities began to tighten the noose around Silk Road. Meanwhile, Ulbricht allegedly made errors of his own: He attempted to hire another hit man to murder a separate user who had threatened to expose some of the site’s sellers and buyers, according to investigators. He also posted Silk Road-related programming questions on a public message board using an account that contained information featuring his real name.
In early July, Customs and Border Protection agents seized a package of fake identification documents as it entered the United States from Canada, bound for Ulbricht’s address in San Francisco and bearing his photo. Later that month, the FBI obtained an “image” — a complete copy — of Silk Road’s server after discovering its location in a foreign country that belongs to a mutual legal assistance treaty with the United States. Court documents do not state whether Green provided any information leading to these discoveries, and in his letter to Davis, he wrote that his attorney had advised him not to give further details, “as I still face serious federal charges.”
On Wednesday morning, roughly a month after the Silk Road site was taken offline, another Silk Road appeared. Like the original, it is accessible only with the anonymizing browser known as Tor and uses only bitcoins as its currency. Its creator, like the original, employs the alias Dread Pirate Roberts.
“#SilkRoad does not represent drugs, it represents freedom,” he or she tweeted, adding, “The only war I am starting is one of the intellect.”
Silk Road back up and running, interview with new head:
https://medium.com/p/157af08832e6
whats the tor url for new sr
Make it SIX murders he tried to order. Allegedly.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...,6844258.story
By Ian Duncan The Baltimore Sun
10:38 a.m. EST, November 21, 2013
Ross Ulbricht commissioned no fewer than six murders for hire earlier this year to protect his position as the operator of the sprawling online drug market Silk Road, according to federal prosecutors.
The new accusations come as the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York prepares to argue before a judge this morning that Ulbricht should be denied bail. Two murder for hire plots authorities say Ulbricht put into motion were detailed in the charges against him, and the four new attempts are described in a filing federal prosecutors provided to the Baltimore Sun.
Ulbricht, who allegedly used the name Dread Pirate Roberts on Silk Road, is accused of hiring a user known as redandwhite -- a reference to the Hell's Angels, according to the government -- to kill a supposed Canadian citizen who was blackmailing him. The FBI and Canadian authorities could find no evidence that the victim actually existed but redandwhite told Ulbricht that the victim had named a Silk Road user called tony76 involved in the blackmail plot.
The user lived with three other people and Ulbricht eventually agreed to pay redandwhite to have them all killed, according to the court filing. But as with the previous plot, authorities could find no evidence that it was actually carried out.
Nevertheless, federal prosecutors argue that Ulbricht's apparent willingness to pay for killings means he should be held in jail.
"Ulbricht should be detained as a danger to the community," assistant U.S attorney Serrin Turner wrote. "Given his willingness to pay approximately $730,000 for attempts to kill six people, there is no reason to believe that he would not again resort to violence in order to protect himself, whether through intimidating witnesses, recovering proceeds of his criminal activity, or otherwise.
is she just delusional cause its her brother.. or could he possibility be innocent?
http://www.freeross.org/
Probably this. Family are the worst arbiters in regards to culpability, and she looks to be an older sister, and older sisters are basically socialized from birth to protect and idealize their younger brothers. Find any stone cold killer with an older sister and you'll find his fiercest defender.
I'm not nearly smart enough on technology to know if he's guilty. I assume those who unraveled the whole thing are. He may not be 100% guilty of everything, but he's probably pretty dirty.
It's not that I think any of these people are lying about what they saw in him. The thing is, with criminality, it's a subtle descent of compartmentalization over time. You step over a line you thought you wouldn't, justify it in your mind, and eventually step over another. I've seen this in the real world with people who actually have to get their hands dirty.
This was a very smart kid, but his studies in grad school were mostly theoretical concepts. His crimes were an extension of seeing theory become real. In a different time, the kid probably takes a job, meets a girl, and becomes a productive decent kid.
That bitcoin community both intrigues and amuses me. A lot of smart kids and interesting discussion, but there is an element of that crowd completely detached from reality. The ones simply making money and interested in the implications for the future are bright kids, but there are others that approach it like an anti-establishment cult. Most cults are harmless. Some get off the chain.
That Libertarian/Austrian Economic theory crowd this kid identified with has some solid ideas, but isn't real big on empathy in a theoretical sense. If you think through their solutions out to the logical conclusion, much of the endgame is cold. Add in the strain of conspiracy theorists among them, which is the new religion, a bad economy, social acceptance from the like-minded, and I can easily see how an awkward bright kid could go down the rabbit hole. I can't think of the shit I would have done in my 20's for that money if I could have achieved it with clicking a mouse.
If that kid had to get his hands dirty, and actually see the pain of drugs and violence and the people who traffic in it, it probably snaps him out of his detachment and he wets himself, but things are such at this point where your first moment of clarity might be when they snap the cuffs on and you're going away for life. At that point, you're going to meet a lot of the sort you were dealing with when you were playing Tony Montana in the comfort of your jammies.
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