State officials shut down the ' Silk Road ' billion dollar " Bazaar sprawling black" men hit on the internet advertising and the number of drug dealers, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and their habitat .
Ross Ulbricht, physics , known for 29 years . Who was accused of "Fear Pirate Roberts " and "DPR," appeared Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco to face the carges of drug trafficking , money laundering , hacking computers and the accused . for murder - allegedly hired . Is the creator and operator of the website . Silk Road .
Court documents allege that owns and Ulbricht . Since January 2011 the underground site called " Silk Road " to drug dealers . Global platform to sell heroin, cocaine, LSD and methamphetamine Ulbricht allegedly asked the Silk Road on March 29 to kill users who were threatening to release the thousand names of the Silk Road, the court said .
"Ulbricht has been reluctant to pursue violent means to maintain control of his website and how to make it illegal for him, " the court said .
Users of the website. On Wednesday I posted a banner . The logo of the Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Homeland Security and the Drug Enforcement Administration and the message : "This site has been hidden annex " .
FBI Christopher Tarbell testimony on the website called Silk Road " black market sprawling drug market and its illegal and other services " are bought and sold regularly in the 30 months off . FBI estimates that the site generated $ 1200000000 in sales and $ 80 million in commissions for entrepreneurs .
The site operates on a computer network known as the Underground "Router onion " or "Tor" special network . Computer . The complex algorithms used to cover a unique Internet address . Each computer to communicate through a computer network to bounce through a series of broadcast encryption to make. It is difficult to trace the source of the message.
Users to perform transactions using the anonymous form of digital currency called "Bitcoins." Bitcoins are a virtual currency . That can be bought with real cash , and stored in a personal account or " wallet " , as well as other currencies , the value of each "Bitcoin" to market fluctuations, coins , virtual , allowing buyers and sellers to complete the . online transactions without leaving a trace , as if they were just exchanging cash for goods .
" Silk Road has become the crime of the most complex and extensive on the Internet today, " Tarbell wrote " The site has tried. To make illegal transactions on the Internet. It's easy and friction while shopping online E-commerce site main " .
State officials said Ulbricht , under the pseudonym "Terror Pirate Roberts " or "DPR" , a reference to a character in "The Princess Bride ", the appearance of the site, including all programming. Maintenance. Customer service and profits .
Ulbricht LinkedIn profile says he graduated in 2006 from the University of Texas with a degree in physics and then . Attended school and graduated in 2010 at the University of Pennsylvania School of Materials Science and Engineering , he has been living with a friend in San Francisco from September 2010, the FBI investigation found .
FBI investigators said Ulbricht to the accused . As an administrator . 's Website . Silk Road on June 3 from an Internet café on the streets of Laguna in San Francisco 's home at Hickory Ulbricht regular computer. Used to log into the Gmail accounts of him in July Ulbricht allegedly purchased fake identification documents , the FBI said.
Posted on the website . Silk Road . Under the codename "DPR" on 19 October 2011 about the downtime . The site explains the Silk Road 's : "We rented server space in a different world through a 3rd party but we do this for concealed the identity of the Silk Road in the event of a breach . security server. , but that means we will have to deal with unreliable thin " .
In March. This is one of the Silk Road . Known as "FriendlyChemist" in a series of emails threatening to reveal the name and address of the seller, 24 sites and 5,000 customers a "DPR" did not give him $ 500,000 to pay off drug dealer his DPR accused . Contact one of the suppliers . FriendlyChemist and offered a reward if Supplier DPR allegedly found him . Distributors say FriendlyChemist live in White Rock , British Columbia . With his wife and three children .
The FBI said . Evidence that the City " does not always happen .
FBI officials and other state knocks first at the site in November 2011 and has made more than 100 purchasing agent of controlled substances , including ecstasy, heroin, cocaine, and LSD, a network of drug from the seller . located in the United States and at least 10 other countries, court documents say agents are available for drilling , including malicious software, such as programs that steal passwords court documents .
The site includes an entry for " drugs illegal in almost every variety " Tarbell said in court documents as of September 23 , the FBI has nearly 13,000 listings for items such as cannabis , ecstasy opioids, drugs, heroin, and one of the sale of cocaine " high quality stone # 4 heroin every document," the court said .
The FBI also found 159 items for services such as computer hacking and other hit men for hire and credit card information stolen .
U.S. researchers have gained access to the server. The site to perform the analysis in forensic science to track buyers, sellers and operators, court documents said in a period of 18 months , analysts tracking over 1.2 million related to the transaction, approximately 147,000 buyers and sellers almost . 4000 , the FBI said sales generated 9.5 million in Bitcoins , worth $ 1.2 billion .
In everyday life , the FBI investigators found the Silk Road held a contract worth more than $ 2 million of Bitcoin transactions customers complete their
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