Just saw that a movie/propaganda piece has come out about the creation of the Silk Road, not watched it yet but has the same vibe as The Social Network, which is total bull crap..."Philosophical twenty-something Ross Ulbricht creates Silk Road| a dark net website that sells narcotics| while DEA agent Rick Bowden goes undercover to bring him down." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7937254/. To me it is the best way for DS to sell drugs and people and arrange assassinations for bitcoin, while "they" take out the competition operating on "their" platform and look good in the eyes of the sheep.
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Yeah, speaking of that; who made bitcoin??
If the people spying can essentially intercept and retain everything passing through the central Internet routers then it's not necessary to track TOR in real time. Wouldn't you think it's easy to track TOR exit nodes if you can record everything and sift through after the fact? Does it matter if you're bouncing across TOR and using multiple VPN circuits? If they already have everything saved then can't they just take as much time as necessary to decrypt private comms? I've just assumed for a long time that privacy does not exist. Only in-person communications are private and everything else is recorded somewhere.
A few things you may find interesting I stumbled on a few mths ago
-did you know there was a large amount of $ moved from a bc wallet of silk rd funds, that had been sitting for years--this happened on ELECTION night. It was an unknown person, individual x, made it possible for a us attorney (who appears to be a good guy, DT appointed, David Anderson) to seize the funds, which went to treasury, about a billion $ https://news.bitcoin.com/a-look-at-individual-x-and-the-seized-stash-of-silk-road-bitcoins-worth-1-billion/ Of all the days for a seizure, 11/3--, cant help it but a certain EO came to mind
Also -Look up Ross's story, I stumbled on his website, his mom has been fighting for him, they have the whole story there, and there is def more to it, the guy seems like a fall guy to me. Lots of info there- freeross.org
-SR -the actual one that the online was named after--historically speaking--trade /commerce route that linked east to west, china to italy. They are working on bringing it back https://about-history.com/silk-road-connection-between-the-east-and-west/
Theres so much more to it all
Thanks for the links. Two people stood out to me Shaun Bridges and Carl Force... Shaun Bridges, a former Secret Service agent who was part of the investigation into the now-defunct dark website Silk Road – but who was subsequently prosecuted for stealing $820,000 in the online crypto-currency bitcoin from the site.. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-secret-service-agent-pleads-guilty-money-laundering-and-obstruction......... Carl Mark Force IV, 46, served on the Baltimore Silk Road Task Force from 2012 to 2014 as the lead agent in charge of investigating and communicating with Ross Ulbricht admits to investing $110,000 in Bitcoin in CoinMKT while serving as the digital exchange's Chief Compliance Officer without DEA approval. In February 2014, Force was alerted to potential fraud in an account holding $337,000. Force told CoinMKT to freeze the account and then transferred $300,000 to his personal bank account, altering reports to show that only the remaining $37,000 had been seized from the account. That same month, Force used his supervisor's seal to issue an illegal subpoena against Venmo after his account was frozen. When that didn't work, Force covered his tracks and then tried to get Venmo investigated and shut down. Finally--if Force's actions don't already sound like the makings of a movie--Force admitted to entering a $240,000 contract with 20th Century Fox Film Studios for a film about the Silk Road's investigation, without DEA approval.
Look who popped up in a DDG search our friend Shaun Bridges, this time connected to none other than Rod Rosenstein. "A former U.S. government agent has admitted participating in the illegal government surveillance on then-CBS New investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson. The insider has identified former U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein as the person responsible for the project." "At the time Attkisson was targeted by the illegal surveillance, she was a CBS News investigative correspondent who was uncovering news about the Department of Justice's "gun walking" operation known as Fast and Furious."
Forgot the link, https://sharylattkisson.com/2020/02/former-govt-agent-admits-illegally-spying-on-sharyl-attkisson/
So all of this leads back to the Seth Rich Murder by MS13 ordered by Shaun Bridges. "No mention of Carl Mark Force IV made it into Ulbricht’s trial. Neither did any mention of Shaun Bridges, the former Secret Service agent charged alongside him. The spree of crimes they committed as Silk Road investigators was under the seal of grand jury secrecy at the time. Bridges used the credentials of a Silk Road moderator-turned-informant to rob Dread Pirate Roberts, administrator of Silk Road. Force posed as a hitman and took money from DPR to kill the informant. Force and Bridges then faked the brutal murder of the informant. In actuality, according to White, the men were thrown under the bus by Rosenstein, because Rosenstein was actively selling classified intelligence to foreign governments on the side, including Russia – a treasonous act, in and of itself, but doubly damning for someone who was supposed to uphold the law at the Department of Justice. However, as the Trump administration came in, the tenor of DC changed, and Rosenstein became increasingly spooked and nervous. According to White, Rosenstein wanted to stop selling info to foreign governments, but the memo didn’t quite make it all the way over to Bridges, who kept accepting foreign money on Rosenstein’s behalf. This outraged Rosenstein, who then used his position and connections to lock the men away on charges related to the Silk Road. In other words, Rosenstein went after his own guys who had previously worked with him on various nefarious dealings – Bridges was, in fact, a forensic computer expert known for his ability to run circles around all kinds of electronics, and even, according to White, able to plant evidence on machines – for doing something which displeased Rosenstein, and which would have potentially exposed Rosenstein to legal scrutiny. And it was from this betrayal by Rosenstein that Bridges started talking to White. White says Bridges spilled to him all the details about the murder of Seth Rich; revelations which shocked, but didn’t surprise White."
Edit: DEA agent Joseph Rosati responsible for Seth Rich Murder not Shaun Bridges
While Ulbricht admits to creating Silk Road, he claims to have passed the operation onto someone else, leaving him to become a "fall guy" for that person. An appeal against his life sentence was rejected in 2017...https://www.techspot.com/news/88011-report-donald-trump-could-grant-clemency-silk-road.html
Definitely a stich up, they only go after you this hard if they are afraid. The family asked Trump for a pardon, but if he knows the users of the worst part's of Silk Road he will be in danger until they get taken down, similar boat to Assange.
Ross seems like he was somewhat of a naive guy with maybe a decent motives at heart but lacking street smarts, and shouldve never opened that door by playing on the dark side. After I read about the BC wallet billion $ seizure on elec night, I was intrigued and I did some more researching, and read about the case details on the ross site, crazy how the ones who actually were selling and outright committing specific crimes, knowingly, got off w/little punishment.
The BC $ seizure is still a mystery, who is indivdual x? And the us attorney who did the seizure seems like a good guy w/ a good track record. It seems so weird that the largest BC wallet transfer, a seizure, would happen on the night of an elec that many believe was fraudulent, based on endless evidence of fraud. And that BC $ was originally tied to Silk Rd, access given by an unknown person, x.
Im betting there is a lot more to all of this. If I wasnt so busy rn in general Id be researching it more bc it is interesting. I pray the truth prevails whatever it is, with all this. And innocent ppl are vindicated, guilty ones punished according to what theyve done.
I also read that about the agent and SR murdr. It was a couple months ago, cant remember where.
I think JA is a good comparison to RU.
It painted Zuck in a negative light, imo. I had no impression of the guy until that movie came out, then I knew he was a backstabbing asshole.
I started distancing myself from Facebook after watching.
I always assumed CIA was behind the Silk Road and the only reason why they went after it was because they were probably not getting enough cut.
https://blockonomi.com/history-of-silk-road/
I'm not saying that Ulbricht wasn't the "face" of the silk road and allowed to "run" with it, like Facebook and Zuckerberg, but it wasn't shut down, until everybody and their mother knew about it, human trafficking, drugs, murder for hire, etc, gets taken down by one DEA agent and no arrests of human traffickers just the guy running the web site, just sounds a bit "swampy" to me, I could be wrong but just doesn't pass the sniff test.
If the entire website uses cryptocurrency/TOR, and 90% of the users are privacy-conscious computer experts, why would it be easy to track down and arrest the pedos and drug dealers?
Crypto might not be as anonymous as you think. https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/500000-in-bitcoin-funneled-to-capital-riot-organizers. "Decloak" to identify suspects hiding behind the Tor anonymity network https://www.wired.com/2014/12/fbi-metasploit-tor/ Other approaches involve the use of sophisticated technology and hacking techniques. For example, the FBI used malware to go after child pornography site Playpen. The software caused users who clicked on the forum to reveal their real IP addresses, which were then sent to investigators. Another hacking technique exploited a vulnerability in the Tor browser, allowing investigators to see the IP addresses of Dark Web marketplaces and users. Ultimately, it's a game of cat-and-mouse.