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G Men Reduced to Arresting Fictional Movie Character
This is not from The
Onion. It is apparently a
real news story and probably more serious than this Post would indicate, but heck, we all need some comic relief at this time..
A Bitcoin libertarian
disaster: The Silk Road gets busted
The FBI announces
the arrest of a man believed to be the online criminal mastermind Dread Pirate
Roberts
A
nuclear bomb just exploded in the world of Bitcoin libertarianism. The FBI has
busted the Silk Road , the online black market
emporium in which nearly anything illicit imaginable could be purchased — but
only via the Bitcoin crypto-currency. On Wednesday, the FBI arrested Ross
Ulbricht, aka “Dread Pirate Roberts,” a man they believe to be the founder and
chief operator of the site, on charges of narcotics trafficking, computer
hacking and money laundering. The criminal complaint filed by the FBI also
alleges that Ulbricht solicited a “murder-for-hire” hit on another Silk Road user who was attempting to extort Ulbricht.
Ted Cruz chalks up another victim, if the FBI can't be funded they can at least catch the Dread Pirate Roberts!
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