In 2011, a twenty-six year old libertarian named Ross Ulbricht hatched the idea to create the world’s ultimate free marketplace: the Silk Road. Found on the Dark Web, the Silk Road allowed buyers and sellers to transact drugs, guns and new identities to anyone who had access to the anonymous cryptocurrency Bitcoin. It wasn’t long before government agencies set out to take down the site, and its leader. This is a behind-the-scenes look at the greatest cybercrime investigation in recent history.
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Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum was a developer of Darkwallet which was being developed during the trial of in-famous “The Silk Road”. So, I guess, the associated negative PR received for “The Silk Road” might have influenced him to look into using blockchain technology for a more general purpose functionality related to distributed applications in a trust-less medium.
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