
Case 76: Silk Road (Part 1)
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The State of the Road Address From the Dread Pirate Roberts
The Baltimore Homeland Security agents found out they didn't approve, but there wasn't much they could do about it. The message was already sent They just had to hope the Dread Pirate Roberts didn't suspect anything Meanwhile, Ross Ulbricht, aka the Dread PirateRoberts, was busy with a number of things unfolding on Silk Road. He put a new message on the site called the State of the Road Address and it caused the problem. It mentioned how some members were being lured into trading outside of escrow and finalising early This was being done to avoid paying the commission to Ross for sales on the site. So he announced that the flat 6.23% commission on all sales was gone.
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