1)Today Ross Ulbricht starts his tenth year in prison for creating and running Silk Road, the first mass-marketed point-and-click #darkweb drugs bazaar. People often ask my opinion of Ross and his sentence. It’s complicated, but here goes. A #Thread 🧵 2)Ross Ulbricht is arguably one of the most influential figures of last decade. I’ll try and explain my reasoning. This is going to be long

We are closing in on the one year anniversary since the dark web's Whitehouse Market shut down. I thought I'd take the opportunity to list out a few of the notable #darkweb "ones that got away"
A #thread 🧵 with pics and links Backopy - owner of Black Market Reloaded. After Silk Road fell, Backopy worried the tsunami of incoming traffic would make his site a magnet for law enforcement and chose to shut it down after letting users withdraw any crypto they had on the market

It's a while since a darknet market had an interesting new UX. Here's a bit about the dark web's Incognito Market
🧵 There are a couple of new CAPTCHAs to get through before hitting the sign up/login page

I went and looked at my Scrivener file for the outline of "Silk Road" I wrote to pitch to publishers in 2012. This was my note for what was supposed to be the last chapter I got the book deal, but boy did the story change over the course of the next few months when I was writing it!

Someone recently asked me to do a people of the Silk Road darknet drugs market - Where Are They Now update, so here it is in a Tweetstorm. Buckle in, it’s going to be a long one - a thread
#darkweb #darknet #silkroad #wherearetheynow 1. Dread Pirate Roberts - Ross Ulbricht - founder/owner/admin - serving 2 life sentences plus 40 years at the United States Penitentiary in Tucson AZ. He has exhausted all appeals and his only hope to ever get out of prison is a Pres Pardon. Tweets under @RealRossU