Silk Road SOURCES

Most of this retelling is paraphrased from American Kingpin by Nick Blinton. I used the book to aid in the sequence of events, but added details not included in the book, left out details unnecessary to the story, and verified facts through other news sources. The rest of my sources are below. No phrasing is directly ripped from the book.

Original Gawker article that broke the news: https://web.archive.org/web/20160407165324/http://gawker.com/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imag-30818160

Other sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20140220003018/https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nicolasc/publications/Christin-WWW13.pdf

https://freeross.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Ross_Ulbricht_superseding_indictment_8-21-2014.pdf

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/drugs-bought-with-virtual-cash-20110611-1fy0a.html

https://www.ibtimes.com/marijuana-lsd-now-illegal-drugs-delivered-your-doorstep-290021

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pgajmv/these-are-the-two-forgotten-architects-of-the-silk-road

https://web.archive.org/web/20130503083748/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/willardfoxton2/100009112/the-online-drug-marketplace-silk-road-is-collapsing-did-hackers-government-or-bitcoin-kill-it/

https://www.wired.com/2014/09/the-fbi-finally-says-how-it-legally-pinpointed-silk-roads-server/

https://letstalkbitcoin.com/users-bitcoins-seized-by-dea

https://www.dailydot.com/business/silk-road-monthly-sales-black-market-drugs-study/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/16/founder-of-drug-site-silk-road-says-bitcoin-booms-and-busts-wont-kill-his-black-market/?sh=635eca7c6c42

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/22/silk-road-online-drug-marketplace

https://www.gawker.com/5879924/now-you-can-buy-guns-on-the-online-underground-marketplace

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/schumer-calls-on-feds-to-shut-down-online-drug-marketplace/1920235/

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/silk-road-crackdown

https://www.emerce.nl/nieuws/nederlandse-silk-road-drugshandelaar-kan-40-jaar-cel-krijgen (Used google translate plugin to read this source)

https://web.archive.org/web/20150529222505/http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/644454/worlds-prolific-online-drug-dealer-supertrips-gets-10-years-2

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4m77a/this-researcher-is-tallying-arrests-from-dark-web-markets

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/ulbricht-admits-he-founded-silk-road-but-says-he-isnt-dread-pirate-roberts/

https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/28/recapping-week-two-of-the-silk-road-trial/

https://fortune.com/2015/05/27/silk-road-sentencing/

https://www.courthousenews.com/silk-road-murder-threat-shown-as-case-nears-end/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2013/11/08/meet-the-silk-road-employee-that-the-dread-pirate-roberts-allegedly-tried-to-murder/?sh=342f944b412c

https://web.archive.org/web/20160305020239/http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/21/silk-road-founder-held-without-bail

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/nyregion/man-behind-silk-road-website-is-convicted-on-all-counts.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/11/06/silk-road-2-0-launches-promising-a-resurrected-black-market-for-the-dark-web/?sh=5a4d54cc5714

https://www.engadget.com/2015-02-08-silk-road-trial-lessons.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/corrupt-silk-road-dea-agent-carl-force-gets-over-6-n447466

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-dea-agent-sentenced-extortion-money-laundering-and-obstruction-related-silk-road