FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

Simple theory of cut one down n two more grow back... The only thing the Feds did when they shut down SR is show everyone where DPR got it wrong. Now they know what he did wrong, and whoever it's gonna be that's gonna end up taking up his mantle n carrying on the SR experience, will know what not to do, and it'll take years and years to shut him down. But that's the game we are playing. You play the game KNOWING that one day you will either get caught or if ur lucky you'll get out before u get caught. But greed prevents that from happening, so you usually just get caught. But as I said, this is the whole game. We all do what we do to make money. And without places like SR, and without drug dealers, the police don't get the funding to pay their officers for working the long hours they work, and don't get to pay for all the fancy equipment and other shit they get. It's just a high stakes game of tag, and there will never be one winner for very long. It's a perpetual cycle, and it will never be over, and this is the whole point. Two more sites will pop up doing the same thing SR did, and both will be twice as hard to bring down as SR.
 
N yes, I'm new to BL, and I'm aware I type way too much, lol. I'm on house arrest and I'm bored as fuck. So plz excuse the lengthy rhetoric.. At least it's semi-intelligent n not some drooling asshole going on about his weekend with bleep blorp n the floopdeedoos...
 
I post on my phone so I don't know if the editing capabilities are the same as on a PC. But regardless, I'll keep that in mind for future posts. Thanks for the welcome too. I've bin a reader of these forums for a long time n really registered because I see a lot of differences in law and personal experiences all around here and I'd love to weigh in on a lot of it. I have a lot of personal experience, with both drugs, and the resulting instances with the law that followed a lot of it lol. So yeah, I'll definitely be around...
 
tweex said:
Also sheepmarketplace looks like a scam, apparently they are not letting people withdraw funds.
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Dude, Sheepmarket ended up being the biggest scam i think on Tor history. The owner of the site robber the sellers of $40 million and ran away with it. There's now a price on his head nationwide. I was upset when i heard that because I thought SM had the ability to be a great marketplace.
 
Beefy said:
Dude, Sheepmarket ended up being the biggest scam i think on Tor history. The owner of the site robber the sellers of $40 million and ran away with it. There's now a price on his head nationwide. I was upset when i heard that because I thought SM had the ability to be a great marketplace.
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Yeah, no shit. Fortunately I only had like .02BTC left there after my last order, so I'm not out much. There are a couple good new ones that have cropped up in the wake of SMP, but they're sort of you need to know someone who knows someone type of deals, not really public.

Deep web drug markets are starting to go the way of torrent sites. There are dealers now demanding everything gets encrypted three times with different 4096 bit PGP keys, and escrow gets released before shipping so they can withdraw. Apparently the marketplace owners are a bigger risk than the government :X
 
bmxxx said:
It's not, and your'e not excused. You can edit that shit down to 1 post, at least..
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check that fuckin attitude at the door man. Whatever fuckin side of the bed pissed u off when u woke up this mornin, go talk that bullshit to them, not me. I'm new to the site and I'm still learning how to post on here. Maybe you should refrain from posting until you get ur morning bag n get off sick bro. Ur talkin to the wrong person, the REAL wrong way..
 
The Sheepmarket robber ended up with $40 million. Shit, it could end up being fucking $400 million with the way the Bitcoin price seems to be heading. But it got pole-axed a few days ago, so there's no telling where it'll go. It could fall to $10, or rise to $10,000.

If it rises I'll consider the entire Sheepmarket, Silk Road, TOR thing a completely and utter fucking scam operation - with the intention of making off with fuckloads of bitcoin and then...cashing it all in...and living the dream. Fucking cunts!
 
Are people actually using that SR 2.0 site now? I'm out of the loop, is it all up and running and going ok?
 
That's insane man.. I mean I know SR has been up for years without getting busted, but after the fact, to go and use a site directly related to the original is like begging the Feds to sting ur ass.. It's like painting a target on ur ass and ur butthole is the bullseye..
 
BuprenOrphan said:
That's insane man.. I mean I know SR has been up for years without getting busted, but after the fact, to go and use a site directly related to the original is like begging the Feds to sting ur ass.. It's like painting a target on ur ass and ur butthole is the bullseye..
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from some site on the new silk road
The new upgrades to Silk Road have been based around making the site more secure and trying to safeguard against closure by the authorities. Apparently Dread Pirate Roberts has set up a fail over system by uploading portions of the site to hundreds of servers around the world so if one goes down or is seized by the authorities then it can go straight back within minutes as if it never went down at all. It is almost like having splinter cells set up everywhere so even if they think they took one down then another is straight back up and in its place.
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Ok ill share.

Silk Road Administrator “Inigo” Busted

http://www.deepdotweb.com/2013/12/20/silk-road-administrator-inigo-busted/


Alleged Top Moderators Of Silk Road 2 Forums Arrested In Ireland, U.S. In International Sweep

“They caught [Libertas] this evening at his house in Wicklow at around 8pm Irish time, and managed to seize approx 200,000 Euro of bitcoins in the raid. The figure is to be confirmed,” the source said. “It looks like the the beginnings of the demise of Silk Road 2, not very long after its resurrection.”


http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/20/alleged-top-moderator-of-silk-road-2-forums-arrested-in-ireland/
 
Looks like they got three of them:

Three alleged 'Silk Road' employees charged with conspiracy

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December 21, 2013 - 11:13AM

Silk Road is the Amazon of the drug trade.

Silk Road was seen by some as the Amazon of the drug trade.

Three alleged former employees of "Silk Road", the online marketplace prosecutors called a "sprawling black-market bazaar", were accused of conspiring to traffic in drugs, hack computers and launder money.

Andrew Michael Jones, Gary Davis and Peter Phillip Nash were charged in a US federal indictment unsealed on Friday in Manhattan with helping Ross William Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind of Silk Road, to maintain the site.

"During its more than 2 1/2 years in operation, Silk road was used by several thousand drug dealers and other unlawful vendors to distribute hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs and other illicit goods and services to well over 100,0000 thousand buyers, and to launder hundreds of millions of dollars deriving from these unlawful transactions," prosecutors said in the indictment.
The many faces of Ross William Ulbricht.

The many faces of Ross William Ulbricht.

Ulbricht, who was allegedly known online as "Dread Pirate Roberts," was arrested in October and charged with running Silk Road, where anonymous users paid Bitcoin digital currency for illegal drugs, malicious software designed for computer hackers and other illegal products. He's being held without bail. While arguing against his release on bail, prosecutors in New York said he tried to arrange the murder of six people to protect his business.
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The government claims Jones and Davis worked as site administrators for Silk Road. Nash was the primary moderator on Silk Road discussion forums, prosecutors said. Ulbricht paid his site administrators and forum moderators salaries ranging from $50,000 to $75,000 a year, according to the government.

The three men are charged with one count each of narcotics trafficking conspiracy, computer hacking conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. Jones was arrested yesterday in Charles City, Virginia. Davis, of Ireland, was arrested in that country yesterday. Nash was arrested in Brisbane, Australia.

Curtis Green, another former Silk Road administrator, pleaded guilty last month to a cocaine conspiracy charge in federal court in Maryland. Green was charged with helping an undercover agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration arrange the purchase of 2.2 pounds of cocaine for about $27,000.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/three-alleged-silk-road-employees-charged-with-conspiracy-20131221-hv6mu.html#ixzz2o4i3opKD
 
I wonder if, because these guys were ex-members of the old road, it made them an easier target. A lot of people thought that because they were from the old road they were "safer".

I don't know the full story but if one of them turned out to be a snitch it wouldn't surprise me.
 
Still not sure why people jumped so quickly onto SR 2. Its really no different from driving onto a block that was raided a week ago or hitting up a dealers phone who was popped recently. Yes, I know all the technical stuff behind SR 1 and 2 but it just lacks common sense.

Anyways, I'd imagine the user base of SR 2 was much smaller. Also, they may be able to link some activity from 1 to 2. I think we will see more arrests soon. Most likely those that made a few purchases of small amounts off of 1 are fine at this point. But I would be nervous if I placed orders on both.

opi8 said:
I wonder if, because these guys were ex-members of the old road, it made them an easier target. A lot of people thought that because they were from the old road they were "safer".

I don't know the full story but if one of them turned out to be a snitch it wouldn't surprise me.
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You also have a pretty large source of information sitting in prison right now, who is likely having second thoughts. He also can likely help himself via a plea deal by providing information about an SR 2.

Many times, Cyber Internet Libertarian Paulbot Warriors find out pretty quickly that making claims that they are "ready to spend life in jail" are harder to stick to when sitting in a cell.
 
Setting up your buddy over a bag of weed is one thing, but its a rare person that holds out on talking when facing decades of imprisonment.

Of course the buck has to stop somewhere, and someone has to do the time!
 
Aussie man accused over Silk Road

Brisbane man Peter Phillip Nash accused in US over Silk Road drug dealing website
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US PROSECUTORS have accused Brisbane man Peter Phillip Nash of being one of the central figures in the hidden, encrypted internet "black-market bazaar" Silk Road.

It is alleged the Silk Road website was used by several thousand drug dealers to distribute hundreds of kilograms of heroin, cocaine,

LSD and other illegal drugs and illicit goods to more than 100,000 buyers around the world over the past two and a half years.

Nash, 40, was employed since January 2013 by Silk Road's San Francisco-based owner Ross William Ulbricht, known by the alias Dread Pirate Roberts, as the primary moderator of the website's discussion forums, prosecutors said.

Nash, who went by the aliases "Batman73" and "Anonymousasshit", was named in an indictment unsealed on Friday by prosecutors in New York.

He was arrested in Brisbane by Australian Federal Police on Friday and faces extradition to the US.

Two other alleged Silk Road employees, Andrew Michael Jones, 24, of Virginia, and Gary Davis, of Ireland, were also named in the indictment.

Ulbricht paid the site administrators and forum moderators salaries ranging from approximately $US50,000 to $US75,000 ($56,590 to $84,885) per year for monitoring user activity on the Silk Road website,

responding to customer service inquiries and resolving disputes between buyers and vendors, it is alleged.

The trio is charged with one count of money laundering conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in US federal prison.

They are also charged with narcotics conspiracy and conspiracy to commit computer hacking.

Ulbricht was arrested in San Francisco on October 1.

Preet Bharara, the US attorney for the southern district of New York, praised the help of the Australian Federal Police with the investigation into Nash.

http://www.news.com.au/world/north-...s-over-silk-road/story-fnh81jut-1226788149230
 
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