Pretty explicit about starting the Silk Road. Looks like it definitely wasn't up until 1/2011, according to year-in-summary entry for 2010
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also entered into evidence: chat logs with various SR mods and users. Tor chats. He logged them. Smh
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For the first few months, RU was manually processing transactions. O.o
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@AdrianChen's Gawker article in the journal file. Apparently you can see the pub date just from surge in sign-ups.#SilkRoadTrial -
Calls DigitalAlchemy his "right hand man." Apparently DA changed accounts to throw off law enforcement. Unclear to what name.
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Ulbricht's coding skills were, uh, not good.
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"I hadn't opened a linux terminal until I left freedomhosting a month after." 1/15/2012 chat log
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Response from Variety Jones: "Thank FSM [hackers] didn't start on you before then!" He then has to explain what FSM is.
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earlier, defense questioned DHS agent about a diff. investigation for a possible DPR. A http://mises.org user
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Among reasons DHS thought "libertystudent" might be DPR-- similar lang patterns. Like both said "anarcho-capitalism" a lot.
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Not a joke not a joke not a joke
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List of similarities in language pattern is pretty long but a lot are in that vein ("agorism").
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With a lot of the Karpeles related cross-exam tossed out, defense is facing uphill battle. But tbh they always were.
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And we're only on the 2nd govt witness. It's going to be a long ride.
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FYI I still haven't spotted anything from Ulbricht's laptop past Mar 2012, so "it was the other DPR" is still not out (maybe)
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correction: between mar 2012 and right before his arrest.
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Word has it that the alleged hits are recorded in the journal. Maybe that'll come up this afternoon. Will report when I'm out
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Not sure whether defense's theory is that this is Ulbricht's journal, or real DPR's (how did it end up on laptop?"), or both.
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Oh and here's another great excerpt: "She already knows I work with bitcoin wich is also terrible. I'm so stupid."
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"It felt wrong to lie completely so I tried to tell the truth without revealing the bad parts but now I am in a jam."
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"Everyone knows too much, dammit."
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Misspelling of "which" is in the original.
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Back to the http://mises.org user investigation: DHS is basically employing a bunch of ~internet detectives~ in suits.
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Half the time I'm incredulous that I'm sitting in a federal district court. It sounds like a fucking Reddit thread in here.
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