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  • You Need To Read The Silk Road Founder’s Haunting Journal

    22 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone in Crime, Drug Use, World
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    We all remember Silk Road, don’t we? That multi-million dollar website that illegally sold drugs using bitcoins? Yes, that one. So, the owner of said site, Ross Ulbricht, was caught and imprisoned. But what was on his laptop at the time he was caught?

    Ulbricht was arrested a San Francisco public library,and was logged into Silk Road’s customer support control panel at the time – evidence which helped pin him down as the unequivocal owner and mastermind behind Silk Road.

    Police officers looked through his browser history and found one of the sites Ulbricht visited just moments before the arrest. They found a page on Silk Road titled “Mastermind.” This dashboard gave “an overview of the transactions and money moving through the site,” according to the filing.

    Officer’s also found that his computer was called ‘Frosty’, which matched the authentication key found on the Silk Road server. They also found a Bitcoin wallet file containing 144,000 Bitcoins.

    That was worth R200 million at the time, and bitcoins are increasing in value every minute.

    Hiding in the recesses of his laptop was a journal, which detailed Ulbricht’s founding of the Silk Road:

    I began working on a project that had been in my mind for over a year. I was calling it Underground Brokers, but eventually settled on Silk Road. The idea was to create a website where people could buy anything anonymously, with no trail whatsoever that could lead back to them.

    Silk Road is going to become a phenomenon and at least one person will tell me about it, unknowing that I was its creator.

    It was also revealed that Ulbricht had “no fewer than six murders for hire,” in order to protect Silk Road. Ulbricht has been denied bail, and continues to sit in jail in Brooklyn.

     

    [Source : Gawker]

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