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The rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road. In 2011, a young programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched an illicit website hidden deep on the Dark Web. The Silk Road was the ultimate free market where anyone could trade anything using Bitcoins - steroids, heroin, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons - free of the government's watchful eye. The Silk Road quickly ballooned into a $1.2 billion enterprise and Ross embraced his new role as kingpin, including ordering a hit on a former employee. As Ross made plans to disappear forever, the Feds raced against the clock to catch a man they weren't sure even existed, searching for a needle in the haystack of the global internet"--Publisher's description.
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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal MasterMind Behind the Silk Road, Nick Bilton
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- Released
- 2018
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Nick Bilton
- Publisher
- Portfolio
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0143129023
- ISBN13
- 9780143129028
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Business, Business & Management, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Creative Nonfiction, Journalism, True Crime
- Original title
- American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
- Rating
- 4.4 out of 5
- Description
- The rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the online black market Silk Road. In 2011, a young programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched an illicit website hidden deep on the Dark Web. The Silk Road was the ultimate free market where anyone could trade anything using Bitcoins - steroids, heroin, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons - free of the government's watchful eye. The Silk Road quickly ballooned into a $1.2 billion enterprise and Ross embraced his new role as kingpin, including ordering a hit on a former employee. As Ross made plans to disappear forever, the Feds raced against the clock to catch a man they weren't sure even existed, searching for a needle in the haystack of the global internet"--Publisher's description.