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Kitteh
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« Reply #25 on: October 03, 2013, 02:02:00 PM »

A substantial amount of trade on the Silk Road was of child porn, illicit services and very illegal firearms. The guy who ran it was a weird psychopath.

Um no, as mentioned, the site very strictly banned weapons and CP. Might wanna know what you're talking about rather than just reading hysterical media reports.

(Not that I disagree about him being a sociopath, pretty much anyone who spends that much time behind a computer screen has to be)

Really, he called himself "Dread Pirate Roberts"? Doesn't he remember what happened to him in that film?

Nah, he only mostly dies in the film.

I guess you could call life imprisonment "mostly dying".
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« Reply #26 on: October 06, 2013, 05:12:58 AM »

Really, he called himself "Dread Pirate Roberts"? Doesn't he remember what happened to him in that film?

Nah, he only mostly dies in the film.

Yes, after extreme torture.
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« Reply #27 on: October 06, 2013, 07:35:19 AM »

I watched a man in a fedora explain the Silk Road, Bitcoins, and 4chan on PBS the other day.
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« Reply #28 on: October 06, 2013, 02:52:45 PM »

I watched a man in a fedora explain the Silk Road, Bitcoins, and 4chan on PBS the other day.

The idea of suburban soccer moms hearing all this stuff cracks me up.
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« Reply #29 on: October 07, 2013, 02:25:16 PM »

So, the 26,000 bitcoin seized so far is just the "coin" that was is the Silk Road account, the FBI is still digging for Ulbricht's personal stash which is estimated at 600,000 bitcoin.  The Feds will hold it thru the trial and conviction and then they will liquidate it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/10/04/fbi-silk-road-bitcoin-seizure/


Kind of ironic that the Feds are now or soon will be one of the largest holders of bitcoin.

Great story.
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