Silk Road shut down, owner arrested - GoFuckYourself.com

See Cig · 10-02-2013, 09:26 AM

http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-conten...lComplaint.pdf

OneHungLo · 10-02-2013, 09:58 AM

If you were buying and selling on silk road get your ass on a the first plane out of the country

Phoenix · 10-02-2013, 10:14 AM

i knew it would go down eventually...i was shocked at how long it went on

mafia_man · 10-02-2013, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Phoenix

i knew it would go down eventually...i was shocked at how long it went on

It wasn't even a flaw in the system.

He had left a trail to a personal Gmail account and his LinkedIn account when shilling the site on BitCoinTalk.

nexcom28 · 10-02-2013, 10:50 AM

It's a shame.

CAHEK · 10-02-2013, 10:55 AM

The government shuttered the site and seized approximately 26,000 Bitcoins worth approximately $3.6 million

Oracle Porn · 10-02-2013, 10:57 AM

btc is taking a dive

dyna mo · 10-02-2013, 11:12 AM

good, now we can see what happens to btc without the 3rd party bullshit like silkroad.

AsianDivaGirlsWebDude · 10-02-2013, 11:17 AM

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Ulbricht has been charged with one count each of narcotics trafficking conspiracy, computer hacking conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy.

In perhaps the most surprising instance in the FBI complaint, the government alleges that DPR even used his site to try to arrange an assassination.

Ulbricht allegedly paid a bounty of 1,670 Bitcoins, about $150,000, to put out a murder hit on a Silk Road user seeking to extort him. Ulbricht was told that the crime had been carried out, although the FBI could not confirm any person was actually killed.

Agents found Ulbricht after Canadian border authorities routinely checked a package intended for his San Francisco home and discovered nine fake identification cards within, which Ulbricht allegedly was seeking to obtain to rent more servers to power Silk Road as it massively expanded.

The 29-year-old University of Texas graduate had first created a trail for himself, however, by asking for help working with Tor dark web tacticts on coding site StackOverflow.com, the complaint says. His original question appears to remain on the site here.

Ulbricht also appeared very active on social media. He?d recently flagged a video on YouTube, ?How To Get Away With Stealing,? calling it ?for later.?

The man behind Silk Road?s commission on the activity, the FBI alleges, has totaled 600,000 Bitcoins, or about $80 million by its own conversions.

I wonder how much bitcoins are worth in jail?

ADG

tokmansta · 10-02-2013, 11:58 AM

Commissions collected from the sales by Silk Road amounted to 614,305 bitcoins

Captain Kawaii · 10-02-2013, 12:04 PM

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lucas131 · 10-02-2013, 12:12 PM

they sure have todo list for all the crap on the net

KillerK · 10-02-2013, 01:24 PM

Bitcoin price takes a beating after Silk Road gets busted

Choopa Phil · 10-02-2013, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by dyna mo

good, now we can see what happens to btc without the 3rd party bullshit like silkroad.

Its down a whopping 12 dollars. BTC is here to stay, it isnt going anywhere. Another SR will be up to take its place soon enough.

_Richard_ · 10-02-2013, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Choopa Phil

Its down a whopping 12 dollars. BTC is here to stay, it isnt going anywhere. Another SR will be up to take its place soon enough.

here's hoping its in germany

dyna mo · 10-02-2013, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Choopa Phil

Its down a whopping 12 dollars. BTC is here to stay, it isnt going anywhere. Another SR will be up to take its place soon enough.

hah, just like when the exchange farts, there's a bit of a dive but btc survives.

i'm confident it will do fine without silkroad, besides, it's all an investment now anyway. my real hope is it survives the mining phase and 99.9% of btc is mined, then we can see what it can really do.

L-Pink · 10-02-2013, 01:59 PM

Of all the countries he could live in he choose the US? Idiot.

halfpint · 10-02-2013, 02:37 PM

Its about time ... Bitcoin does not need sites like that

420 · 10-02-2013, 02:39 PM

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An agent involved in the investigation ("Agent-1"), found the first few references to SR on the internet from somebody only identified as "altoid", attempting to promote the site in its beginning days, in January of 2011.

In October of the same year, a user also going by the name of "altoid" made a posting on Bitcoin Talk titled "a venture backed Bitcoin startup company", which directed interested users to "rossulbricht at gmail dot com".

That email address is what led to DPR's downfall.

Genius held over $60,000,000 worth of BTC.

My condolences to anyone who lost escrow monies or recently bought BTC.

AsianDivaGirlsWebDude · 10-02-2013, 03:13 PM

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In June 2013, Ulbricht allegedly logged into Silk Road from an Internet Cafe in San Francisco. From there the feds traced his Gmail logs and located his home, 500 feet away, on Hickory Street in San Francisco. They intercepted his mail and found he had allegedly been receiving fake IDs.

Agents visited him on July 26, 2013, and discovered his roommates knew him as "Josh." He declined to answer their questions.

In July 2013, the FBI located the Silk Road server and copied an image of it ? all its contents, in other words. They discovered 957,000 registered accounts on the server, of which at least 30% were from the U.S.

Things came to a head in early August, when the FBI arrested a man who was allegedly trading child pornography via a Tor-hosted site called Freedom Hosting.

At that point, "dark web" sites began going offline as users figured out that as much as 50% of the Tor network had been compromised by the feds.

The fact that Ulbricht was still online, and operating Silk Road, through September, is therefore surprising. he had ample warning the feds were after him as far back as June.

In fact, as the indictment against him makes clear, the feds were on to Silk Road back in January 2011. Their investigation discovered him allegedly trying to hire a hitman to take care of an extortionist in March 2013.

The bottom line is that if you were doing anything illegal on Tor or Silk Road for the last three years, you may be screwed.

ADG

adultmobile · 10-02-2013, 03:24 PM

He looks nice for a pirate:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rossulbricht

xNetworx · 10-02-2013, 03:43 PM

He is going to prison for a looooooooooong time

_Richard_ · 10-02-2013, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by adultmobile

He looks nice for a pirate:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rossulbricht

thanks, seems like a cool guy

L-Pink · 10-02-2013, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by adultmobile

He looks nice for a pirate:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rossulbricht

"I want to use economic theory as a means to abolish the use of coercion and agression amongst mankind."

lol,

RandyRandy · 10-02-2013, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Choopa Phil

Its down a whopping 12 dollars. BTC is here to stay, it isnt going anywhere. Another SR will be up to take its place soon enough.

Isn't Atlantis still up and running? They have the same marketplace.

RyuLion · 10-02-2013, 04:00 PM

Weeeeeeeeee!

Mutt · 10-02-2013, 04:25 PM

How did the guy behind SR make money? I thought it was one to one transactions using bitcoins between drug sellers and buyers so where/how did SR get its revenue from?

Oracle Porn · 10-02-2013, 04:41 PM

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my housemate got arrested for hacking

the search and seizure that the cops left mentions hacking, Tor, bitcoins and silk road

the dude was kinda vague about what he did for a living, so this isn't too surprising, i guess.

rent is due tomorrow. :?

http://forums.hipinion.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=64444

_Richard_ · 10-02-2013, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Oracle Porn

http://forums.hipinion.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=64444

Just Alex · 10-02-2013, 05:02 PM

He will walk after turning everyone in. Maybe probation.

Paul · 10-02-2013, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by mafia_man

It wasn't even a flaw in the system.

He had left a trail to a personal Gmail account and his LinkedIn account when shilling the site on BitCoinTalk.

If this is true then the guy is an idiot

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Originally Posted by dyna mo

good, now we can see what happens to btc without the 3rd party bullshit like silkroad.

Seriously Silk Road was at least 30% of ALL Bitcoin transactions.

$5 submissions · 10-02-2013, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

I wonder how much bitcoins are worth in jail?

ADG

They only take BBC 'coins'

AllAboutCams · 10-02-2013, 05:19 PM

LTC down a lot as well

$5 submissions · 10-02-2013, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by adultmobile

He looks nice for a pirate:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rossulbricht

He's going to Fed prison so he can afford to smile... Less involuntary man on man action in the fed system.

Supz · 10-02-2013, 05:25 PM

looks like the dread pirate roberts got fucked up in the fireswamp. ROUS's

anexsia · 10-02-2013, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Mutt

How did the guy behind SR make money? I thought it was one to one transactions using bitcoins between drug sellers and buyers so where/how did SR get its revenue from?

SR vendors pay a fee to become vendors and there's also little fees charged during different transactions and so forth.

anexsia · 10-02-2013, 05:39 PM

It's like whack-a-mole, there's several other black market websites that weren't as popular as SR but are now seeing a huge increase of vendors and users making the transition.

AllAboutCams · 10-02-2013, 05:44 PM

Paypal not working for me as well

OneHungLo · 10-02-2013, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by $5 submissions

He's going to Fed prison so he can afford to smile... Less involuntary man on man action in the fed system.

lol he's going to be doing hard time so he will be in a maximum security u.s penitentiary...no smiles will be had

deltav · 10-02-2013, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by adultmobile

He looks nice for a pirate:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rossulbricht

Seems like a reasonably smart guy, but WTF was he thinking??

I just assumed SR and sites like it operated from Eastern Europe or some Third World place, not the country MOST LIKELY TO FIND YOU AND THROW THE BOOK AT YOU. Did he have a plan for when he inevitably got caught? Guess we'll find out.

Not that I personally think he was doing much, if anything, wrong... but use some common sense, man!

EDIT: Ahhh, I missed the part about trying to hire a hitman online, and also bragging about the other assassination he planned. He is just an idiot. http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/201...astermind.html

- Jesus Christ - · 10-02-2013, 06:45 PM

His reason for this hits was defense of his users. Disclosing private information is a THREAT to their life.

slapass · 10-02-2013, 07:49 PM

Wow after Tor was compromised why did he just split with all of that cash?

tokmansta · 10-02-2013, 07:55 PM

Rather funny he had a Linkedin profile. Imagine if big druglords had one, would be hilarious.

georgeyw · 10-02-2013, 08:07 PM

Jesus, this guy was a complete wacko! Hiring hitmen to kill former employees?

http://www.news.com.au/technology/us...-1226731942871

freecartoonporn · 10-02-2013, 08:08 PM

this shows , govn. is watching internet.

lucas131 · 10-02-2013, 08:40 PM

everyone makes a mistakes

_Lush_ · 10-02-2013, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by - Jesus Christ -

His reason for this hits was defense of his users. Disclosing private information is a THREAT to their life.

That takes protecting user privacy to a "whole otha level!!"

I'm surprised he was living in SF and how did the feds shut down his servers so fast I would think they would be located offshore but maybe he was hosting from boxes in his own place

lucas131 · 10-02-2013, 08:55 PM

poor silkroad

deltav · 10-02-2013, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by - Jesus Christ -

His reason for this hits was defense of his users. Disclosing private information is a THREAT to their life.

Translation - drug dealer puts out a hit on a snitch. Then brags online about the other guy he had killed.

The more I read about this guy the more it's apparent that he's either a complete dumbass or has a screw loose, probably both.

ilnjscb · 10-03-2013, 01:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Supz

looks like the dread pirate roberts got fucked up in the fireswamp. ROUS's

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dyna mo The People's Post Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: invisible 7-11 Posts: 65,146	good, now we can see what happens to btc without the 3rd party bullshit like silkroad.

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