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The oral hearing for the appeal was 6 October 2016. His lawyers submitted an appeal on 12 January 2016, centered on claims that the prosecution illegally withheld evidence of DEA agents' malfeasance in the investigation of Silk Road, for which they were convicted. The prosecutor believed that none of the six contracted murders-for-hire occurred. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on.

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Ulbricht was convicted of all the remaining charges after a jury trial that concluded in February 2015. although the evidence was factored into Ulbricht's sentence. When they had sufficiently distracted him, a third agent took his computer away, and inserted a USB flash drive that cloned all the data on the hard drive. To prevent Ulbricht from encrypting or deleting data on the laptop he was using to run the site as he was arrested, two agents pretended to be quarreling lovers. Ulbricht may also have included a reference to Silk Road on his LinkedIn page, where he discussed his wish to 'use economic theory as a means to abolish the use of coercion and aggression amongst mankind' and claimed 'I am creating an economic simulation to give people a first-hand experience of what it would be like to live in a world without the systemic use of force.' In October 2013, Ulbricht was arrested by the FBI while at the Glen Park branch of the San Francisco Public Library, and accused of being the 'mastermind' behind the site. He also sporadically kept a diary during the operating history of Silk Road in his first entry he outlined his situation prior to launch, and predicted he would make 2011 'a year of prosperity' through his ventures.

Ulbricht began work on developing his online marketplace in 2010 as a side project to Good Wagon Books.

Dread Pirate Roberts attributed his inspiration for creating the Silk Road marketplace as ' Alongside Night and the works of Samuel Edward Konkin III.' However, it is disputed that he was the only one to use that account. Ulbricht used the Dread Pirate Roberts login for Silk Road. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency while all bitcoin transactions are recorded in a log, the blockchain, if users can avoid linking their identities to their online 'wallets' they can conduct transactions with considerable anonymity. By hosting his market as a Tor site, Ulbricht could conceal its IP address. Tor is a protocol that encrypts data and routes internet traffic through intermediary servers that anonymize IP addresses before reaching a final destination. His limited business success, combined with a breakup with his on-and-off girlfriend from Penn State, left Ulbricht discontented.Īs early as 2009 Ulbricht had been contemplating the idea of building an online black market that would use Tor and bitcoin to evade law enforcement. He eventually partnered with his friend Donny Palmertree to help build an online used book seller, Good Wagon Books. His mother claims it was the latter that his LinkedIn profile was referring to when it stated, 'I am creating an economic simulation to give people a first-hand experience of what it would be like to live in a world without the systemic use of force,' claiming it to be a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. He had tried day trading and starting a video game company. By this time Ulbricht, finding regular employment unsatisfying, wanted to become an entrepreneur, but his first attempts to start his own business failed. Ulbricht graduated from Penn State in 2009 and returned to Austin.

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He attended the University of Texas at Dallas on a full academic scholarship, He attended West Ridge Middle School, and Westlake High School, both near Austin. He was a Boy Scout, attaining the rank of Eagle Scout. Ulbricht grew up in the Austin metropolitan area.

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