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There's a HUGE story under a lot of BS if you ever want to leave a real mark. It has to do with the old Silk Road dark web site. You should start by reading the trial papers (a lot of them are still sealed.) Ask yourself: why did Ross get a sentence almost exactly like Bernie Madoff, and not like a drug kingpin? Why would anyone agree to sell drugs on the internet when doing so instantly changed the crime from a local misdemeanor (maybe a fine and a month) to a federal case (mandatory minimums and huge fines)? Where are the 100,000+ missing transactions and how was he getting "hacked" so easily? What were the charges against him? Why did the FBi say it only went after the "top 1%" of Silk Road "dealers." Read Ross' notebooks that he "accidentally" left behind. What was he REALLY doing at that library? Instead of accepting for a fact that Silk Road was what it claimed to be and putting a microscope on Bitcoin to see what that was, do the opposite. Imagine if Silk Road wasn't what we all assume it was. It's a pretty big story.

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