Reddit reviews American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

I think I'm starting to get sick - sore throat, congested head, stuffed up nose - and I'm freaking out because I don't want to be sick on vacation.

I ordered American Kingpin on Amazon for some cruise/beach reading - did any of you follow the story of Ross Ulbricht/"Dread Pirate Roberts" and The Silk Road drug marketplace? I ordered a few times from there years ago when it was still operational. I find it fascinating. Can't wait to read it.

So it's officially been two months since I've tapered, and two months since I had my period. You would think that I would be stable on my sub dose by now, but I'm starting to get withdrawal symptoms at night again. I posted on a suboxone taper facebook group asking if anyone had ever done a medically-assisted rapid detox and linked to the website online. I swear, people on facebook are so dumb. They assumed I meant the Waismann Method, or that I was talking about a rapid taper. One person told me to take the money and go on vacation, because tapering "isn't so hard" - if I could punch someone, I would. I feel like I'm being belittled and it's really frustrating.

My favorite drink is whatever alcoholic beverage I can get my hands around on a big ass cruise ship.

American Kingpin, the story of Ross Ulbricht (better known as Dread Pirate Roberts) and how he built and crashed the online drug market known as The Silk Road, is out and on my amazon wishlist. Hint hint. Just kidding, I'll probably buy it myself for lounge-reading on the boat.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591848148/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=caseyneistat-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1591848148&linkId=58f5246e11d8d0cd9a21dd55c2e07a1d

It was in the description of the source video as well.

I consume everything by audiobook/audible. You will find them all on audible.

the Silk Road one is more accurately 'American Kingpin'.

I know what entrapment is, and maintain that if you order multiple hits you’re a bag of shit even if technically someone asked you to first.

However, I don’t think it went down that way. In this case all of this was done online so there’s chat logs and other evidence. Read up on how bad a dude he was/is. He is literally the opposite of the quote above.

https://www.amazon.com/American-Kingpin-Criminal-Mastermind-Behind/dp/1591848148

Mä luulin että kapu on pidätetty aikoja sitten jo, ainakin alkuperäinen. Juuri luin Tälläisen kirjan silkkitien perustajasta, tykkäsin.

> you have to have your email registered here for it to be legit, and i never register anything

I was just using Reddit as an example. Here is my main point: there may be 30 clever ways to cross reference exactly who you are IN THE FUTURE at some point when the government links up all their databases and runs some AI on it.

Every time somebody says "it's perfect, I'll never be caught" it sets off warning bells. Since your cell phone knows who you are and talks with cell towers in your area at every point in time, if you cross reference your location (from the cell phone) with your laptop's IP address every time you post to reddit from a laptop, it narrows down the choices. Then you browse other websites, or check your email, and you leave a little trail. Understand me: YOU ARE TOTALLY SAFE TODAY, the question is whether this will be true in 5 years?

If you haven't read it, I HIGHLY recommend "American Kingpin" which is the story of catching the Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht. Ross kept saying over and over again "you can't catch me, the dark web can't be tracked and Bitcoin can't be traced". He is now in jail for the rest of his life, so he was wrong. :-) One of the ways they caught Ross was because he posted several times to different forums (under the name "Altoid" - not his real identity) referring to Bitcoin and Silk Road very very early on, YEARS before they had any interest and caught him. But the forums kept the history around (like reddit) and when it came time, the data was there for the FBI to track him down.

Ross BECAME super careful later, when Silk Road took off. He encrypted his laptop and never used a user name twice - but that history when it didn't seem to be a big deal yet is what got him caught.

> I believe the IRS agent who discovered Ross had to use his LE credentials to get archived data.

There's literally a book about how Ross got caught. https://www.amazon.com/American-Kingpin-Criminal-Mastermind-Behind/dp/1591848148

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> Alpha maybe a different story. The email header is probably fake news,

I have it on good authority that it was not fake news.

> but Cases was a nerd and posted tons of shit online. He probably slipped up somewhere else.

The documents I read said they also identified him by tracing his bitcoin withdrawls through a mixer. As they did with HumboldtFarms (among other ways). Same type of thing happened here: /r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/72ws9e/legal_papers_exposing_how_one_moderator_of_some/