Silk Road founder arrested ...

[bill.stewart@pobox.com (Bill Stewart)]

If he were the REAL Dread Pirate Roberts, this would be his method
for selling his ship to the next holder of the Dread Pirate Roberts franchise.
(Ok, probably not.)

At 10:19 AM 10/2/2013, Ted Smith wrote:
>Well, he was caught because early on, he advertised for developers using
>his real-name email address.

Dumb.

>On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 18:42 +0200, Lodewijk andr�© de la porte wrote:
> > Good. That'll remove one mayor anti-bitcoin argument. Plus it shows
> > that even with anonymous transactions people can still be caught doing
> > illegal things, making it less important to have exclusively publicly
> > knowable transactions.

I thought Silk Road was one of the major pro-bitcoin arguments.
But there are competing services as well, according to some news article
I saw that tried three of them (but since they 
were a Reputable Journalism Channel,
the reporter didn't get to actually smoke the dope he bought.)