Joyden Marty
271 posts


This guy built a $1.2 BILLION drug empire from a laptop in a library, got two life sentences, and still walks free today.
In 2011 a 26 year old physics grad named Ross Ulbricht launched a website called Silk Road.
Named himself "Dread Pirate Roberts" after a character from The Princess Bride.
The first product listed was magic mushrooms he grew in a rental cabin in Texas.
Silk Road became the Amazon of the dark web and you could buy ANYTHING anonymously using Bitcoin.
9.5 million Bitcoin was traded on the site, nearly half of all BTC that existed at the time.
At today's prices that's over $800 billion.
The FBI spent two years looking for him while an IRS agent solved it in his free time.
Ross had promoted the site on a mushroom forum under a fake name, then used the SAME fake name on another forum where he posted his real Gmail address.
Agents tracked him to San Francisco where he worked from cafés and a public library.
The day they arrested him, two undercover agents staged a fake couple's fight behind him in the library to distract him while another agent grabbed his laptop before he could lock it.
The screen showed him logged in as Dread Pirate Roberts.
On the laptop they found a file labeled "emergency" with his escape plan, destroy the laptop, destroy the phone, find a place on Craigslist for cash, create a new identity.
Two of the FBI agents investigating him got caught stealing Bitcoin from the case.
Ross got two life sentences plus 40 years with no chance of parole.
Served 11 years.
Trump gave him a full pardon in January 2025.
Someone anonymously sent him 300 Bitcoin after his release which are worth $31 million.
His prison clothes are on display at crypto conferences now like museum exhibits.


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@Viral_0nX @grok Chapo can still escape or be pardoned some day but Mencho is done
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@brighw3b El chapo is still alive serving life imprisonment in the United States
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@Jantar127 El chapo is still alive serving life imprisonment in the United States prison
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