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Silk Road Founder Made Millions of Dollars a Day
“Next thing you know, he's making millions and millions and millions of dollars a day as the biggest drug dealer on the internet.”
Federal agents were imprisoned for stealing Bitcoin and leaking Silk Road info
“Throughout this case, there's like three or four different FBI agents or like DEA agents who are convicted and go to prison because they started talking with Ross and getting into Bitcoin. And they eventually like started feeding him information about what the…”
Ross Ulbricht was never charged with or convicted of murder-for-hire
“Yeah, so to be clear, he was never convicted of this. In fact, he was never even charged with putting out these hits.”
DEA estimated Silk Road processed $1.2 billion in illegal drug transactions
“This is like DEA estimates. So they say 1.2 billion dollars worth of illegal drug transit transactions took place.”
Silk Road processed $10B in transaction volume in today's dollars
“Silk Road got famous because they had something like if you do like today's dollar it basically made Bitcoin popular because it was like eBay for drugs and something like ten billion dollars went through it in only two years since he started it.”
Tim Draper bought Silk Road's seized Bitcoin for $20 million
“Billy, his dad was Tim Draper, who eventually goes on to buy the Bitcoin. I think he was a billionaire already, but he bought the Bitcoin that Ross was arrested with because they, the government auctioned it off. And that Bitcoin is like worth like five billio…”
Silk Road initially accounted for 75% of Mt. Gox's transaction volume
“So the reason why they suspected it was Mt. Gox was when they started, it accounted for like 75% of Mt. Gox's business.”
Silk Road Processed Over $1B in Gross Merchandise Value
“Where I think, I don't know if at its peak, but I think Silk Road was doing like, you know, over a billion dollars, like GMV through the marketplace.”
Sam Parr: Ross Ulbricht was caught over a simple clerical error
“By the way, this is how they caught Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road. He just, he posted on a forum, logged into the wrong username, or he left his email, like it was like a clerical error.”
Corrupt Silk Road DEA agent Carl Force received six years in prison
“And one guy who did it, one guy who did it, I think his name is Carl force. I think he got sentenced to somebody six months. So like, what's that? Like six years.”
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht received two life terms plus 40 years
“They find him guilty and the judge sends, sentences him to like two life terms plus 40 years.”
60 federal agents infiltrated Silk Road with fake transactions
“That's 60 federal agents who were on there doing like fake sales or fake buys and bust.”
Ross Ulbricht's pre-Silk Road online bookstore peaked at $10,000 monthly revenue
“Before he started the Silk Road, he had an online business called Goodwagon where he sold books and it didn't go so hot. Like the peak it made in revenue was like 10 grand in one month. And so his profit was very little.”