The Dark Web Series - Part 2 - Dark
Seven: Disturbing Chronicle Stories of Scary, Paranormal & Horror Tales
Seven: Disturbing Chronicle Stories of Scary, Paranormal & Horror Tales, Bleav
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🗓️ 27 March 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I am your host Ketown and you're listening to seven disturbing chronicle stories of scary, paranormal and horror tales. Ross William Ulbridge, who called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts claimed he would never be arrested. |
| 0:31.9 | With the FBI takedown of the 29-year-old Obridge, the Silk Road's biggest drug dealer, the |
| 0:38.2 | notorious Silk Road website, came to an end. |
| 0:42.2 | Olbridge was charged with money laundering, narcotics traffic conspiracy, as well as computer hacking. |
| 0:48.7 | The U.S. Department of Justice seized Silk Road's website, nearly $4 billion in Bitcoin's, which is the main |
| 0:57.1 | currency on the dark web and halted what was thought to be nearly $40 million in annual revenue. |
| 1:05.0 | That figure may be astoundingly more, but not proven. |
| 1:08.0 | Internet chatter claims Olbridge had the audacity to give Forbes a interview and at that point everyone could see the end for him was near journalist Adrian Chin's 2001 gocker article covering the Silk Road could not have help Albert's case either. |
| 1:27.0 | Silk Road lasted two and a half years, still how did it, and the other points of interest in the Tor network begin. |
| 1:36.0 | In 2011, Oberts reached out anonymously for feedback to an idea of his in a message board on a website |
| 1:45.0 | Schumory.org. He asked, I came across this website called Silk Road. |
| 1:51.0 | It's a tour hidden service that claims to allow you to buy and sell anything |
| 1:56.6 | online anonymously. I'm thinking of buying off it, but I wanted to see if anyone in here had heard of it or would recommend it. |
| 2:06.0 | I found it through Silk Road 420. |
| 2:09.2 | WordPress.com, which is if you have a tour browser will direct you to the real website. |
| 2:17.0 | Let me know what you think. |
| 2:18.0 | And just in case that tactic didn't work, |
| 2:21.0 | Olbridge also posted on a Bitcoin forum a couple of days later and sparked |
| 2:27.0 | instant excitement there. |
| 2:29.0 | Olbridge's great idea thrived, created a boom in Bitcoin, but ultimately failed because of his ego. |
| 2:36.9 | His boasting and sloppy tactics cost him his privacy and eventually his freedom. |
| 2:43.4 | After the fall of Silk Road, the two smaller markets in his shadow, |
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