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A 29-Year-Old Built a $400 Million Crypto Empire From a Laptop, Then the FBI Knocked
In the afternoon of October 1, 2013, Ross Ulbricht walked ten minutes to a cafe on Monterey Avenue from his rented room in San Francisco. It was full, he discovered. So he went to the San Francisco Public Library’s Glen Park branch next door, took a seat at a table by a bright window in the science fiction section, and turned on his laptop. According to most accounts, he appeared to be just like every other coder working in San Francisco that day: slightly disheveled, unremarkable, and engrossed in his screen. In reality, he was running the biggest darknet drug marketplace in the world, directing millions of ... (full story)
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