He sneers at almost every aspect of Ross' life and never fails to write mean-spirited quips about his appearance, his love-life, his lack of success in business ventures (which is somewhat dubious).
The author speaks with a laughably self-conscious commentary as though he is a billionaire philanderer who fell face-first into a bucket of success and cash, and who wrote the book in-between his quest as the modern day Alexander The Great. However, there's something extremely alarming about this book which hits you as soon as it's finished - the author has hold of the establishment narrative on drugs and drug laws, and the key concepts of why Ross Ulbricht did what he did, are absolutely strangled out of existence with an overbearing ignorance of Ross' views, and also, an extremely mean-spirited view of Ross' life. It was exceptionally well written, it was paced perfectly, personalities were well-rounded and the story was well researched to some extent. It’s a story of the boy next door’s ambition gone criminal, spurred on by the clash between the new world of libertarian-leaning, anonymous, decentralised Web advocates and the old world of government control, order and the rule of law.īrilliantly-written mean-spirited garbage As Ross made plans to disappear forever, the Feds raced against the clock to catch a man they weren’t sure even existed, searching for a needle in the haystack of the global Internet.ĭrawing on exclusive access to key players and two billion digital words and images Ross left behind, New York Times bestselling author Nick Bilton offers a tale filled with twists and turns, lucky breaks and unbelievable close calls. Ross embraced his new role as kingpin, taking drastic steps to protect himself – including ordering a hit on a former employee.
While the federal government were undertaking an epic two-year manhunt for the site’s elusive proprietor, the Silk Road quickly ballooned into a $1.2 billion enterprise. In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything – drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons – free of the government’s watchful eye. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom – and almost got away with it.
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