Silk Road owner charged in second assassination plot
Posted by: Timothy Tibbetts on 10/03/2013 10:40 AM
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Breaking Bad is over but we have an incredible story of a modern day dealer using a website and Bitcoins to deal. It has it all. Extortion, billions of dollars and even multiple assassination plots.
According to Department of Justice documents, Ross William Ulbricht, 29, has been pegged as Silk Road proprietor Dread Pirate Roberts. He was apprehended in San Francisco, along with $3.6 million in bitcoins, a difficult-to-trace cryptocurrency.
Ulbricht faces charges of computer hacking, money laundering, and narcotics trafficking, specifically heroin, cocaine, LSD, and methamphetamines, among others.
In regard to the hacking charges, Ulbricht is accused of providing a platform facilitating the sale of password stealing, keylogging, and remote access tools. The money laundering charges relate to the famous Bitcoin tumbler on Silk Road which, it was thought, allowed it to move vast amounts of money without giving away information about the identity of users.
There is just too much here to cover from a small site like Majorgeeks but the Daily Dot has complete coverage starting with this story and working backwards.
BusinessInsider also has screen shots of what you "missed". I was curious myself, but never curious enough to look; not these days.
According to Department of Justice documents, Ross William Ulbricht, 29, has been pegged as Silk Road proprietor Dread Pirate Roberts. He was apprehended in San Francisco, along with $3.6 million in bitcoins, a difficult-to-trace cryptocurrency.
Ulbricht faces charges of computer hacking, money laundering, and narcotics trafficking, specifically heroin, cocaine, LSD, and methamphetamines, among others.
In regard to the hacking charges, Ulbricht is accused of providing a platform facilitating the sale of password stealing, keylogging, and remote access tools. The money laundering charges relate to the famous Bitcoin tumbler on Silk Road which, it was thought, allowed it to move vast amounts of money without giving away information about the identity of users.
There is just too much here to cover from a small site like Majorgeeks but the Daily Dot has complete coverage starting with this story and working backwards.
BusinessInsider also has screen shots of what you "missed". I was curious myself, but never curious enough to look; not these days.
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