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How the feds took down the Dread Pirate Roberts. ⇒

   7 October 2013, mid-morning

A pretty thorough look at the whole Silk Road shut down. This story is crazy. Why would you run a site like Silk Road in the United States of America?

By 2013, Silk Road had nearly one million user accounts. In the 2.5 years the site operated, it facilitated 1.2 million transactions worth 9.5 million Bitcoins—or about $1.2 billion in total money exchanged. (Bitcoin values varied widely over this period.) Roberts picked up a cool $80 million in commissions.

Crazy.

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