7/6/2023 0 Comments Nick bilton silk roadThen I heard one day that the guy who ran the Silk Road, the Dread Pirate Roberts, had been arrested at that library. A couple years later, I was living in San Francisco, and I used to walk my dog past a tiny library near my house in Glen Park. I was writing for the New York Times at the time, covering hacker culture, and I read a little about Silk Road–related stuff and the dark web and so on. I heard about the Silk Road the way that everyone else had - from Adrian Chen’s Gawker article in 2011. How did you first hear about the Silk Road and decide to write a book on it? I spoke with Bilton last week about Ulbricht, Silk Road, and first-mover advantage when it comes to darknet marketplaces. He is now serving two life terms without parole. Ulbricht was captured in 2013, after a two-year-long search that would come to involve half a dozen federal law-enforcement agencies. At its peak, the site he founded, a so-called “Amazon of drugs,” was doing tens of millions of dollars a month in business. Nick Bilton’s new book, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road, traces the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, a.k.a. Photo: Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images for EPIX
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