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The Dread Pirate Roberts and the Silk Road: Anatomy of a Darknet Killer

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Jul 6, 202642:08Society & Culture

A libertarian idealist known only as “The Dread Pirate Roberts” builds the Silk Road—an anonymous online black market that explodes into a billion-dollar empire—until the digital kingpin is unmasked, revealing how one ma...

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