Topic: SilkRoad domain Seized? - page 12. (Read 46632 times)

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Lots of disappointments today.

The Silk Road is gone.

DPR apparently was a murderer.

Mike Hearn is an authoritarian asshole.

Fuck this shit.

I strongly disagree, someone with a minimum sense of humanity would prefer to shut down its business before killing someone... The fact DPR himself told to the hitman "wife + 3 kids" when describing his "target" is way beyond evil. My stomach hurts and my mind spins just to think about it.

Filthy money and the awful things that people is capable to do for it...

I maybe agreeing, but still theres alot of factors out there that lead to his arrest and he should of laid low and more anonymous when he promised to stay like that.

blackmail = extortion = felony.  hitman = felony, murder = felony, money laundering at this level= felony, drug trafficking medium = felony; and I'd like to know more about the "victim" and the "hitman".   Who was the victim with 3 kids?  How do we know he had 3 kids?  Who was the hitman?  Who is the "hitman"?

I think it's too early to speculate but a lot more was at stake. If the blackmailer had released compromising information about SR users this could result in a lot more broken families.
It seems to me that as a libertarian, DPR was acting within the non-agression principle.

1) He ordered a hitman to kill a blackmailer, threatning him for BTC everyones user and address,
 consqequences if blackmail succeeded.
 1) Tor will be vulnerable by this jackass
 2) Bitcoin will be flactuated
 3) SR will be down
 4) Several thousands of users will be at risk
 5) He can tell the FBI how to use Tor and its vulnerabilites if he knew.
I think it was a good thing, one guy dead, over thousands of peoples info at risk and their lives ruined, plus he mad millions of this site and put some hard work into it, you think he was going to let us down?

2) DPR put aaall his BTC into one wallet, which was a mistake, he should of put into multiple wallets little by little.

3) He revealed his true name in some forums and his email address

4) Ordered some fake id's to possibly move to state to state under alliases, but intercepted by the feds, possible investigation was probaly ongoing after the few forums mistakes.

5) He used a nearby cafe wifi to run his servers by his house.


Now tell me how many mistakes he did to fuck up. Overall he is a good kid, full of education, majored in studies, college, chemical engenerring, blah blah blah. But he doesnt seem the type of guy to do this. Overall he saved me 2 years ago, whn SR first opened and I had a herniated disk in my spine, the vicodin pills made my heart rate drop, side ffects of chills, fainting, nausea. hated that, I tried marijuana, and then on that was my medicine, but my state didnt allow medical use of it, and resorted to silk road. It was until then I dint need it anymore since my state passed the medical marijuana bill, but I say thank you to him for saving my life. R.I.P. SR.

The money made from selling the bitcoins would still be considered evidence, as well as the blockchain itself..

Get rid of the evidence even before the trial starts?  I think not.

They must have used bitstamp.. it sold a lot harder than gox

FBI seized Silk Road's bitcoins and liquified them instantly. Panic sell by the Feds. Lovely. 

The blackmail was about nothing more than MONEY.  Once you hire a hitman, it's about someone's LIFE, and is considered a whole new level.  It's hard not to sympathize with a man with 3 kids, do you think they deserve to see their daddy murdered just because he tried to blackmail someone?

I think the lesson here is to avoid being blackmailable.

WTF! This must have happened sometime when I was driving through Chattanooga, TN.

Sure, and the South American cartels are simply 'facilitating' the movement of narcotics between growers and end users by the same, ultimately irrelevant, logic.

What DPR was actually doing was taking money from drug buyers, and then drop-shipping the drugs using his network of suppliers as the supplier-shippers. He'd then pay the supplier-shipper for their service once he confirmed his clients (SilkRoad users) got the narcotics they had paid SilkRoad for.

Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly what happened. He wanted this right before convincing a bunch of investors to dump boatloads of cash into Bitcoin.

Government agents lie all the time, many times to protect operational security. Government and LE has been the source of so many lies, disinformation and untruths that it's prudent to be skeptical of any claims made in the beginning of a bust.

How did they manage to seize the bitcoins?  

I bet they knew it was coming, and organized for a buy

Geez, I missed all the panic selling again because working?

Lame.

Why would they invent such a thing? They have plenty of evidence to put him away for narcotics anyway. Plus, this guy doesn't live in Yemen, he isn't going to get drone striked. He lives in San Francisco and will go before a judge. If his defence says, "we'd like to see the evidence of this alleged conversation" and the prosecution say, "uhhh well your honour, we sort of made that whole thing up" then the case collapses and the guy walks.

They aren't going to risk their entire case to invent evidence they don't need.

DPR was a guy who talked a good talk, and suckered a lot of people into believing he was some kind of saintly martyr. In fact he was the kind of guy who orders assassinations. That isn't so unbelievable if you read the rest of what he wrote.