EP 116: BLIND READ — “The Untold Story of Silk Road” (Part I)

We're kicking off the Silk Road series—a massive dark web drug market run by a mysterious boss called DPR. We start with Curtis Green, a Utah grandpa and pain pill user who worked customer service for the site, getting raided by SWAT while covered in cocaine powder from a fake package (his tiny chihuahuas go wild).​

Then we flashback to Ross Ulbricht: a smart former Eagle Scout and physics student who drops out, experiments with psychedelics, discovers Bitcoin, and secretly builds Silk Road from his laptop—a hidden online "eBay" for drugs using anonymous Tor tech. We review his early struggles: coding the site solo, dodging hackers, lying to friends/girlfriends about his "Bitcoin startup," and growing it into a $1B+ sales empire.​

This episode covers Silk Road's wild rise—DPR's rules (no child porn or fakes, but anything else goes), Bitcoin enabling global drug sales, and feds scrambling to catch him. The fall's coming next.

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Source:https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/