![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He didn’t so much sell the drugs (although he did a little of that) so much as he created a marketplace where sellers and buyers could anonymously do business through bitcoin. He also created the Silk Road, a billion-dollar business in illegal drugs and guns. But I didn't really understand that there are places on the web you can only reach with a special anonymous browser – the real dark web.Īmerican Kingpin is the riveting story of Ross Ulbricht, a 26-year-old dark web entrepreneur with Libertarian sensibilities. So when I heard phrases like the dark web I always thought they meant there was some really bad stuff on the internet. My ignorance of, and inability with, technology is somewhat legendary around my building. Even so, I am easily drawn into true crime storytelling, which brings me to today’s book. To this day I still have not seen a single episode. Because I teach ethics, there's always someone trying to persuade me there is something that I just have to watch, like when I was bombarded by Breaking Bad fans. I actually don't care much for serial TV or its Netflix equivalents. I am not one of those people who binge watch anything. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road By Nick Bilton ![]()
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