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Securities Regulation, Cryptotransactions Keyed to Goforth
United States v. Ulbricht
Citation:
31 F. Supp. 3d 540 (2014)Facts
The Government alleged that from January 2011 through October 2013, Ross Ulbricht designed, created, operated, and owned Silk Road, described as the most sophisticated criminal marketplace on the Internet. Silk Road operated using Tor software to enable anonymous browsing and required all transactions to occur using Bitcoin, an anonymous digital currency. The platform functioned like eBay, allowing sellers to post illegal goods and services, buyers to purchase them, and Ulbricht to collect commissions on each transaction. The Indictment alleged that several thousand drug dealers and over one hundred thousand buyers worldwide used the site to traffic in heroin, cocaine, LSD, and malicious software including password stealers and keyloggers. Ulbricht allegedly controlled all aspects of Silk Road with assistance from paid employees, reaped tens of millions of dollars in commissions, and pursued violent means including soliciting murder-for-hire to protect the enterprise.
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