I wish there were more to this story as the OP indicates, because that's some great conspiracy theory stuff! Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure it went down the way they said it did.
Well, this prediction seems to have some facts behind it now, at least:
The attempted murder-for-hire was probably fabricated as well
And here's another (anonymous) claim to know the "real" DPR. Again, no idea whether it's legit:
Okay this is probably either one of the stupidest decisions of my life or it may just be the only redeeming thing I have ever done. So you all know about "Silk Road" (the defunct online drug market that was shut down in oct13). The man sentenced to life for running it (Ross Ulbricht), is not the only guy who ran it. I dont think he was too involved at all. I have since moved and the person I am about to talk about has gone ghost as well so here it goes:
I spent a few months dating this guy (considerably older) who was probably running the website for 80% of the time. He was always online logged in and many times in-front of me not only used the Dread Pirate Roberts account, but also chatted with who I now believe was the Ulbricht boy. My former SO often joked that this "kid" was essentially his robot and worshipped him. I know he had probably over 2,500 bitcoins at one point. I saw other things that he is stupid for flaunting, such as his conversations that he would decrypt and save to USB drives as "insurance" (his words) of him discussing things with police. Either he was an informant or he had them working for him. I think both. I know for a period of about 8 or 9 months that Ulbricht had not logged into the site portal because my ex-SO became paranoid that the guy might have been arrested or killed or turned informant. he pops back up and they start chatting like old buddies, supposedly he was hanging out with family and having personal problems.
I dont know the specifics and have never told a soul. When they arrested this boy, my ex took off. Said he was going to visit his parents and lay low for a bit, and then abruptly vanished. I did see him as "last online X hours ago" on Whatsapp here and there, so thankfully he's not dead or in jail.. I think.
For those who might think I could be getting him in trouble and Im being a bitch/vengeful/rat. No I aint. He's not a US citizen and is most likely not in the US.
TLDR/ELI5: Ross Ulbricht was definetly not "The Dread Pirate Roberts" as much as he was accused of. That would impossible. He sure is paying the price for it though. May God make this guys situation better one day, he's pain a price for shit he wasnt too vested in.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3b0kwl/whats_your_deep_web_story/cshrivcIn case you're wondering which user account on this forum was Curtis Green that I uncovered:
bigasic locked the thread he started to help a Silk Road mod.I also uncovered the user name on this forum of the top forensics guy in the world. I believe him to be a cool dude though, especially when he patted me on the back via private convo for uncovering more on Brock Pierce then he had. Even Brock conveyed to me three times (once in person) echoing my Google-fu skills.
Currently, I'm connecting the dots between Sonny Vleisides and Jeff Ownby's relationship way before BFL and the former's sentencing for fleecing tens of millions mostly from the elderly with his/their lottery scheme.
One more thing: I'm almost convinced that Raoul is psy are the same person.
