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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom - and almost got away with it.
In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site…
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I’ve never read a non-fiction book that felt so much like a novel as American Kingpin. The book absolutely bounds from event to event.
It presents a solid cast of law enforcement misfits who all get sucked into chasing down the people behind The Silk Road website that’s giving so many people access to illicit drugs, and it details all the quirky little mistakes that The Dread Pirate Roberts made on his way to getting arrested.
This is crucial to bitcoin history, like it or not, because The Silk Road was the first marketplace where there was real demand for…
From Brady's list on cryptocurrency, aka, magic space money.
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