Moustache

Smooth Operator, Yo! 💀

[Moustache @lamoustache]

Perfect opportunity to get this old story out of our Silk Road Tales and Archives vault. The trojan skull - https://t.co/f18BC82cE0

[Eileen Ormsby @EileenOrmsby]

The story of how Nomad Bloodbath's skulls led to the downfall of Silk Road https://t.co/eFboRmEFua via @theregister

[Moustache @lamoustache]

@ConserArmenians Nope, no plan at all. I don't really have time and don't have much more to say on the topic.

[Drew Jones @drewjone5]

@EileenOrmsby @RealRossU I can't believe trump kept his promise. What a wild ride it's been. So happy for him.

[Eileen Ormsby @EileenOrmsby]

If @RealRossU is released in just over a week on the 28th, it will be on the anniversary of Silk Road opening

[Gary Davis @GaryDavisGD]

YES! SO MUCH YES! This is WONDERFUL! Congratulations Ross! Welcome back to your life! You did twice as much time as I did for SR, but you did it facing a black hole of hopelessness. Yet you never lost hope. You're a beacon, Ross! Here's to your future!

[Free_Ross @Free_Ross]

Ross was just granted a FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL PARDON by @realDonaldTrump. Words cannot express how grateful we are.

President Trump is a man of his word and he just saved Ross's life. ROSS IS A FREE MAN!!!!!

[Eileen Ormsby @EileenOrmsby]

So glad to see this. Gary is the last of DPR's three deputies to be released from prison

[Moustache @lamoustache]

@EileenOrmsby Oh no, missed that, it mentioned their name directly in the tweet https://t.co/k7eEXhk3S9

[Moustache @lamoustache]

Alexandre Cazes a/k/a Alpha02 and Admin officially linked to AlphaBay market.

[Eileen Ormsby @EileenOrmsby]

Silk Road's "Variety Jones" aka Mongoose, aka Roger Thomas Clark was sentenced today.

THREAD 3 - Variety Jones speaks and begins with "Everyone in this court should look around, because this is probaly the last time you will see me before I get killed"

[Eileen Ormsby @EileenOrmsby]

Silk Road's "Variety Jones" aka Mongoose, aka Roger Thomas Clark was sentenced today.

THREAD TWO: The US Government response

[Eileen Ormsby @EileenOrmsby]

Silk Road's "Variety Jones" aka Mongoose, aka Roger Thomas Clark was sentenced today. I was there. A thread of the highlights

THREAD ONE

[Eileen Ormsby @EileenOrmsby]

Silk Road's "Variety Jones" aka Mongoose, aka Roger Thomas Clark was sentenced today.

THREAD 4: the summing up and sentence

[Tay 💖 @tayvano_]

The selling of this bitcoin is, by far, the least interesting part of the saga.

The govt's seizure, the dude who had his bitcoin seized, and why it even got seized in the first place is full of so many amazing, hysterical, enraging gems.

Heads up...not a short story. Buckle up.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

The United States Department of Justice has announced the arrest & conviction of James Zhong. Zhong defrauded online marketplace Silk Road of 50,676.17 Bitcoin in 2012. The current value of Bitcoin places this value at approx. $1,049,989,971.

More info:
https://t.co/R5WX5znVhv

[Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar]

THREAD: An update on the sentencing of Roger Thomas Clark, aka “Variety Jones” who plead guilty in Jan 2020. (Thx to @theturningworld for the nudge to check.)

Headline is: he (still!) hasn’t been sentenced yet.

https://t.co/3YqoDlHYq0

[Moustache @lamoustache]

@HaboubiAnis @bluetouff Un lien possible... https://t.co/IGlZO4bgUD

[Moustache @lamoustache]

@CindyPom Maybe @nickbilton can confirm

[Moustache @lamoustache]

DEA agent Carl Mark Force IV posing as Nob for his #SilkRoad profile picture

[Moustache @lamoustache]

@CindyPom Looks like Its from Nick Bolton's American Kingpin. https://t.co/CMctJbIyG5

[Moustache @lamoustache]

Those pics were taken from a not really good article promoting Nick Bilton's book "American Kingpin".
https://t.co/r4t2qfyBM0

[Moustache @lamoustache]

Fair point, but I'd bet in this case the real breakthrough came from AlphaBay data (and sloppy OPSEC, always). If anything the blockchain tracking companies were used in support of the investigation and for parallel construction. No AlphaBay seizure, no arrest.

[Eileen Ormsby @EileenOrmsby]

11 years ago altoid made that post on Shroomery... "Have you heard of a site called Silk Road?"

Still the most mind-blowing story of my career