The Silk Road leads to prison

the murder for hire charges were dropped shortly after his arrest and have long been speculated to be bogus because of all the holes in the details. i'm pretty sure his greed did him in because there is a long list of people he ****** off before he was raided. he was notorious for not releasing bitcoins to merchants and randomly raising prices to do business. also, his security methods for storing the site contents and user information were amateur, to put it nicely.

i loved the concept and idea behind it. very well executed, but not without flaws. what i disagree with is the decision he made to allow fake IDs, stolen credit cards, and whatever else to be sold too. strictly drugs, it was a much safer alternative than the hoping to not get beaten to death. there wasn't even the worry about being e-robbed since the buyer controlled when to release the funds.