Silk Road was doing exceptionally well. The mysterious website combined an anonymous interface with traceless payments in the digital currency Bitcoin, and racked up more than $1 billion in sales in its heyday.
The remarkable thing about Silk Road is not its success, however, but is in the story of the unassuming young man who envisioned the website in the first place, and how he rose to become the kingpin of an online criminal empire…
Meet The Kid Who Secretly Ran A Billion-Dollar Criminal Empire Online is an article from: LifeDaily