cover of episode 41: Diving Into The Dark Web: Dark History of Silk Road

41: Diving Into The Dark Web: Dark History of Silk Road

2022/4/27
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Ross Ulbricht's journey from a physics student to the creator of Silk Road, driven by his interest in drugs, Bitcoin, and the dark web.

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The internet isn’t really that old. But that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t already started to gather its own dark history. I mean we’re talking about a whole branch of the internet literally called “Dark Web.” And there was one site in particular that basically made the dark web the mainstream place for drugs, fake ids, and murder for hire. Today we’re going to talk about the Silk Road. The website that single-handedly validated bitcoin and laid the foundation for dark websites we still see in action today.