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#1120 Chris Tarbell | Former FBI Agent On Early Bitcoin & Silk Road Takedown

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Silk Road

An IRS agent looked back in time and saw that right around the start of Silk Road someone had posted on a on a forum that said they needed help running a underground like a web server type thing that ran on tour and used bitcoins. That's a clue so we look into this is there's a guy named Ross Albrick living in the in the west coast in San Francisco and he posted that post under the name Frosty. So we had our clue of the only someone that had Silk Road server would know that that his computer was named Frosty but do you find him without that original post? um maybe maybe maybe I don't know but I mean that's what I was spending that

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