These logs were excruciatingly in-depth conversations about every moment and every decision that went into creating and managing the Silk Road. Over the course of my research for this book, I was able to gain access to more than two million words of chat logs and messages between the Dread Pirate Roberts and dozens of his employees. He spent years living on his computer and interacting with people, good and bad, through that machine. If there is anyone who left more of those digital fingerprints lying around the Internet than most people, it was Ross Ulbricht. We e-mail, text, and chat with hundreds of people throughout the day. We share pictures and videos on social networks, leave comments on news articles. Ulbricht was also the subject of Nick Bilton’s bestselling book, American Kingpin. The door handles we touch, the screens we press, and the people we interact with all capture a trace of our being there. and the Ulbricht saga is set for release in February 2021. This deeply researched book is a pleasure to read and a nightmare foretold for law enforcement.“Each and every day, as we navigate the real world, we leave a billion little fingerprints in our wake. Hiring worldwide help to run a marketplace in drugs, guns, and human organs, Ulbricht could demonstrate his superiority, change society, and get rich in Bitcoin. Bilton excels in showing how Ulbricht, otherwise undistinguished professionally, recognized that warring government agencies, including corrupt agents, were unable to police the anonymous reaches of the Internet. It alternates between accounts of baffled federal agents trying to identify the ghostly "Dread Pirate Roberts," Ulbricht's online persona, and his Libertarian upbringing and actions. Thanks to his access to trial transcripts, web postings of Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, and interviews with government players and friends of Ulbricht, this book brims with fascinating detail. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroomand almost got away with it In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anythingdrugs, hacking software, forged. Bilton (special correspondent, Vanity Fair Hatching Twitter) has written the first and definitive account of the Dark Web drug bazaar known as the Silk Road.
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