Who Is the Real Dread Pirate Roberts?
There may be more than one Dread Pirate Roberts, says Ross Ulbricht's lawyers after someone accessed the account while he was in federal custody. Silk Road has left an indelible mark on Bitcoin’s history. The deep web marketplace operated by Ross Ulbricht is again in the news over a year after he was sentenced to life in prison on charges of money laundering, computer hacking, conspiracy to traffic fraudulent identity documents and conspiracy to traffic narcotics. This time, it is because of “another” Dread Pirate Roberts! According to the lawyers representing Ross Ulbricht, someone had....
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US Marshals receive 34 bids for the Dread Pirate Roberts Auction of 50,000 bitcoins. Ross Ulbricht clearly loves history. This is evident from the pseudonym that he chose for his online activity, and even the name he chose for the domain name. The pseudonym he chose was Dread Pirate Roberts, and he named his site the Silk Road though in my view Seven Seas would have been apter. Dread Pirate Roberts - The Legend Continues. Here are a quick lit and history lesson. Dread Pirate Roberts, is a fictional pirate who first appeared in William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride and was roundly....
Ross Ulbricht's defense attorney, Joshua Dratel, does not deny that his client founded the Silk Road. Indeed, Ulbricht began the illicit dark web drug market in February 2011, Dratel says, as a sort "economic experiment" relating to Ulbricht's libertarian belief system. However, the defense claims that after a few months, Ulbricht "found it too stressful" and turned the reigns over to other people who had begun working on it with him. Also read: Prosecutors Using Murder-for-Hire Plots Against Ross Ulbricht in Drug Case. Ross Ulbricht: Dread Pirate Roberts? In a 2013 interview with what....
For the record, former head of fallen Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, Mark Karpeles has said he is not the Bitcoin underworld leader of the "Silk Road" website, who went by the alias Dread Pirate Roberts. Now, he has said many other things before that people simply don't believe, so take the following quotes under advisement. He's not exactly a beacon of credibility. "I'm not a pirate nor a fraudster," Karpeles told the Daily Beast. "Nor, for the record, am I the creator of Bitcoin, the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto." The publication interviewed Karpeles after he was mentioned prominently in the....
Is Mark Karpeles the infamous Dread Pirate Roberts? The Ross Ulbricht trial currently ongoing in New York City has taken an unexpected turn. The defense, with the help of the undercover Silk Road agent working for the Department of Homeland Security, Der-Yeghiayan, has seemingly successfully presented the case that the culpable Dread Pirate Roberts behind Silk Road was not Ross Ulbricht but Mark Karpeles of Mt. Gox instead. Joshua Dratel, Ross Ulbricht's lawyer, told the court:
The Silk Road trial is heating up as sittings have entered the third week. Most importantly, the first hints of an alleged murder-for-hire plot are now surfacing, while the Federal prosecutors have added new proof to the already overwhelming stack of evidence suggesting Ross Ulbricht and Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) are one and the same. The third week of sittings took off where the second week left off: the prosecution's attempt to link the Dread Pirate Roberts alias to Ross Ulbricht. And much like the second week, matters are looking bleak for Ulbricht. “I saw the relative ease that came....