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For those who want to read more about the Silk Road story, including everything in this post, check out the book "American Kingpin" [0].

It's a great read and a real page turner. It tells you about Ulbricht, his accomplices, everyone chasing him, etc. Reads like a novel.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31920777-american-kingpi...

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Having just finished this book about 2 months ago, I tend to agree. My only gripe is that the book is about 20% too long. There is a lot of what I call "fluffing", like when I had a book report with a simple topic and a high word-count minimum

Yeah if the book is too lengthy, the author also authored a series of articles for Wired (I believe) a couple years back that are pretty in depth and a great read and serve as the basis for the book. I highly recommend them.

Is this it? https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/

It's not written by him but it contains this:

>This article includes reporting by Nick Bilton, whose book on the Silk Road case will appear in 2016

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