![]() ![]() "I just don't have a shred of a doubt that it was Ross," Bilton told Reason's Zach Weissmueller. ![]() Ulbricht's mother, Lynn, recently called American Kingpin a " media lynching." The judge didn't allow Ulbricht's lawyer to present this theory in court, and Bilton doesn't mention it in the book. Ulbricht's legal team claimed that this is exactly what happened with the Silk Road: Ulbricht started the site, but handed off the name-and control of the illegal marketplace-to another operator. The name was also a nod to the cult classic The Princess Bride, in which "Dread Pirate Roberts" is passed down from one character to another. Reason's Brian Doherty called the book "a lurid cops-and-crooks story" in his recent review.Īmerican Kingpin tells the gripping story of the manhunt for Ross Ulbricht and the "Dread Pirate Roberts," a pseudonym used by the chief operator of the Silk Road, an online marketplace on the dark web that was used to buy drugs, weapons, and other illegal goods. ![]() ![]() " problem with the all-out libertarian argument of 'anything goes' is that we live in a world where everything you do affects someone else," says Nick Bilton, former New York Times columnist, Vanity Fair special correspondent, and author of American Kingpin : The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road. ![]()
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