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Silk Road: Murder, Drugs & Crypto

2024/6/10
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Claire: 本集探讨了Ross Ulbricht创建的Silk Road暗网平台的故事,该平台最初旨在进行大麻交易,但很快发展到销售各种毒品、武器,甚至涉及谋杀。这是一个关于技术人员试图在线销售毒品,最终导致谋杀和混乱的故事。暗网是一个复杂且危险的地方,它既可以用于非法活动,也可以用于保护言论自由和商业活动。比特币的出现为Silk Road提供了不可追踪的支付方式,这使得追踪资金变得困难。Ross Ulbricht对Silk Road的安全过于自信,无法认识到其潜在的危险。他与女友Julia的关系因Silk Road而恶化,最终导致分手。记者Adrian Chen对Silk Road的报道引起了美国政府的关注,并引发了一系列调查和逮捕行动。 Tess: Silk Road的兴起和衰落反映了科技发展与犯罪之间的复杂关系。Ross Ulbricht的个人经历和信仰也深刻影响了他的行为。自由主义的理念以及对政府管控的反对,驱动着他创建Silk Road,试图实现毒品自由交易的理想。然而,他的行为最终导致了严重的后果,包括谋杀和监禁。Silk Road的案例也凸显了暗网和加密货币的风险与挑战,以及政府在打击网络犯罪方面的难度。

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The episode introduces Silk Road, a dark web marketplace for drugs, founded by Ross Ulbricht. It traces the origins of the site and its initial focus on marijuana transactions using Bitcoin.

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In this RE-RELEASE episode, Tess takes us through the journey of Ross Ulbricht’s founding of Silk Road, the dark web known as “the Amazon for drugs.” Meant to be a place for buyers and sellers to conduct marijuana transactions using Bitcoin, it quickly escalated to offering hard core drugs, weapons, and before the FBI could find this man…murders. This is Silk Road. 

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