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Title: 2013-10-02
Post by: FTL_Ian on October 02, 2013, 10:17:23 PM
Say it ain't so!
http://rt.com/usa/silk-road-bitcoin-shut-650/ (http://rt.com/usa/silk-road-bitcoin-shut-650/)
Nearly 1 million registered users
feb 2011-jul 2013 there were 1.2 million transactions involving nearly 147,000 buyers and 3800 dealers
nearly 10,000,000 bitcoins transacted, of which SR scooped 614,000.
He had 3.4m USD of BTC in his account on SR
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/02/silk_road_s_dread_pirate_ross_ulbricht_asked_stack_overflow_question_under.html (http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/02/silk_road_s_dread_pirate_ross_ulbricht_asked_stack_overflow_question_under.html)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24371894 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24371894)
http://www.businessinsider.com/ross-ulbrichts-linkedin-page-2013-10#ixzz2gbQCUUpP (http://www.businessinsider.com/ross-ulbrichts-linkedin-page-2013-10#ixzz2gbQCUUpP)