The Dark Side Of The Silk Road
The silk road has a lot of history as a marketplace but very few people know the full story. In today's deep dive we will take a look into the untold side of the silk road
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Fair warning. Tons of spoilers in the comments. Follow up video: kzhead.info/sun/ZLqTm82JjKx_h40/bejne.html
Bro I was legit wanting an actual silk road documentary like the real life one. I am sad I have been click baited yet again :(
You sir are a talented investigative journalist. I'm hooked
Thanks!
We produce a lot of things that would get this video Demonitized, we also produce a lot of other things that would get this video Demonitized
what’s the next video?
Took me 8 seconds to realize this is not the about overland trade routes of the Han dynasty
this is literally what I thought this video was about, rofl
Same 😂 still watched it though
@@Jamsomeone Me as well.
Same
I said exactly the same thing out loud :'D
I was fully prepared to watch an hour long video about people being mugged in the sand over some chinese worm-cloth, but this works too.
I am forever going to call silk "worm-cloth" now, thank you
As soon as you left the protection of the Great Wall there was bandits who would rob you. Maybe they just didn’t go past the wall
Piehogger mood
Aha same here i was hoping for some epic stories about the Mongols or something
Lmaooooo same!
"I've only ever commissioned one other hit, so I'm still learning this market" is CRAZY
Yeah, that was so callous, non-chalant and heartless.
So casual. Like he was sending an email to his boss or something
And imagine theres countless idiots on youtube supporting him and wishing he would be free
it's clear he was so enthusiastic about enacting a walter white-esque power play that he didnt stop to think about how anything actually worked
And like Walter White his downfall came as a result of hubris. Even then Walt almost got away with it all if not for that book, while Ross was being tracked from the start.
Yeah it's crazy that he didn't realize it wouldn't have been sustainable. There's always gonna be scam artists in any illegal business, it's the cost of doing business, and Ross should've treated it accordingly. No different from a retail store who includes leakage as an expense.
This man straight up baited the whole entire World History fan community
THANK YOU! but it was worth it
honestly yes
He got me
He got me, but HE DIDN'T. Because I am also a huge internet guy.
Came for the world history, stayed for the lulz
I watched this genuinely wanting a history of the dark side of a trade route 2,150 years ago, however still satisfied
I was hoping the same as I'm currently studying Economics in Uni. But shit went dark real quick
The camel on the sand path definitely was misleading xD
Same here
Me too 🤪
😭
It’s also funny that Ross didn’t realize he was getting scammed when my first guess was that all those accounts were the same person. The whole story is so zany. The fact that he thought a Hell’s angel would make an account on his site because a middleman that owed them money told them to just shows how out of touch he was…
Exactly, there were so many red flags throughout the whole thing like the similarities in writing styles (overly long and rambling, incorrectly used lowercase i’s everywhere) and the complete implausibility of Red and White’s behaviour eg. *joining a dark web market (still fairly obscure at the time) solely to speak to a complete stranger about what is ostensibly just an ordinary, real-world, debt collection matter. *and then make numerous admissions of criminal behaviour to this complete stranger over the Internet, and even plan several murders with him, in painstaking detail, whilst professing to not be very tech savvy. *eagerly accepting bitcoin as the payment method for a 150k murder-for-hire, then after the fact claiming to not even know how to cash out bitcoin. *claiming that his organisation try’s to steer clear of murdering people, but then freely admits murdering somebody recently and happily accepts contracts for several more murders, and even has an established pricing structure for murders. *conveniently always just happens to have “a guy” on hand to do exactly what is required *always creates time pressure for Ross to agree to (and hence pay for) the murders quickly, which is a classic hallmark of a scam
lmfaooo literally came here to comment this exact thing.
@@shanetonkin2850 they also have safe houses, were they take people, that they seem to tort ure people to get them to talk, when not just was that not part of the deal. The info they got was exactly what was already known. They also have an entire recon team it's so ridiculous
@Shane Tonkin thanks for putting it all out like that because I can't help but think.. okay a Hell's Angel on the dark web exchanging messages with a guy who runs a massive drug market... fine, but immediately taking payment in bitcoin for hired hits with contracts in place and all the talking at length. You'd think he would recognize the plot got a bit silly.
Even funnier how Red&White had a icon of a skull in a biker helmet. Like they'd go out of their way to do that 😂
This is genuinely one of the greatest true stories I’ve heard on KZhead. The twist was insane. Absolutely shocking
Wait so who was behind whose accounts? I’m confused, Ross is The dread roberts right?
@@th0w464 dpr was ross, the rest of the accounts were run by same guy called James Ellingson. He got outplayed on so many levels by just one dude. Crazy 🤯
@@th0w464 rednwhite and friendlychemist r the same person conning ross aka dread roberts
did you just watch 1 hour and 15 minutes completely unaware of what was being narrated? @@th0w464
Chemist real juicy drop r&w anybody ross was talking too was completely made up all running off one dude who was the scammer I honestly can’t believe this story how is this not universally well known it involves the first time the dark Web was ever talked about online
"we produce a lot of things that would get this video demonetized" its really considerate of them to be so concerned with your video
those hell's angels folks seem mighty fine
Kevin Nix r/woooosh
@Kevin Nix I either love u, or hate u for that comment.
@@jacksonelh they are canadians after all
@@RadkeMaiden we do quite enjoy our crack addicts.
Dude was so manipulated didn't even question the blackmail.txt
I think there's a point where if you believe that a person is who they say they are and are telling the truth, you kind of stop scanning for things that might not add up, as long as they aren't so glaring that you can't help but question it. But still... blackmail.txt?
@@eyegrinder94 probably talking about how it seemed the guy legitimately thought he could get blackmailed. Not even a "wtf this is fake" kind of thing. Just believed it was true and worked to get several assassins in
Who was redndwhite and friendlychemist ?
takitaki rumbah the same person, ross got scammed
@@fatpen9731 I think they were all the same guy... Lucy, Rednwhite and friendlychemist were all this James Ellingson guy that later got arrested.
After you listen to his parents you understand why he grew up thinking he could get away with something like that. The fact that the people that he thought he was ordering killed weren't real may have kept him from being charged criminally with murder doesn't excuse him morally. If that had been a law enforcement agent instead of a scammer that he'd been talking to, he could have easily been charged with and convicted of conspiracy to commit murder.
It depends on exactly how the statutes are worded. The legal issue would've been the same regardless of who he was talking to.
That's what I don't understand about people religiously defending him, mainly extreme libertarians who are high on the kool aid. Ok, so the people that he ordered hits on were fake and he got scammed. Sure his stupidity and gullibility, as well as te stupidity of running a dark web illicit marketplace that facilitated the drugs and arms trade that was tied to his freaking Gmail account is pretty hilarious, but the bottom line is, at the time of ordering the hits he very much believed it was real. Thats the important part his white knights seem to put so much effort into ignoring, probably hoping it goes away. Everything I'd need to know about this guy's moral compass is thanks to those messages. Was tge scammer in the right? Of course not, but it tells you that the people who run sites like the sill road and all their clones, as well as most libertarians who defend them aren't doing it in your interest as a consumer being screwed by a tyrannical government and bureaucratic red tape, but in the interests of criminals. They want to make it harder to catch, try, and punish these criminals who ate more than capable, at least psychologically, of doing great harm to others with zero remorse. Sure the scammer is also a POS, but he accidentally did us all a favor by revealing the evil behind these so called attempts to stick it to "big government".
It’s pretty widely assumed that he was indeed talking to LE
@@BigFreem assumptions mean absolutely nothing without hard proof.
Absolutely nailed it.
I think one of the most insane parts of this story is that Ross Ulbright was so easily fooled. He’s from Texas, dude had a 1450 on his SAT and studied Physics at UT Austin. A classically brilliant man who for whatever reason was also incredibly gullible 😂
Its called not being street smart
@@mbtravel7294 Mhm
I think his ego done him in. In his mind it was totally reasonable that he could convince some minions to gets an actual HA member to join his forum and engage him and do his bidding
The hell does being from Texas have to do wit anything 😂😂
UT Dallas
Came for the historic trade route. Stayed for the dreadlock pirate.
kash Bamba same
get agrop
Well it was an historic trade route for the internet
The same but I didn't stay, just stop the video and came see if someone else was mistaken by the title. I'm out.
Dread pirate
LMFAO avoiding demonization must have been like walking through a minefield
"Tony76 AKA Canuck"... Ummm, I don't think his name was simply "Canuck" 😂
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Karl Dennis lucy in the sky with Tony
I think you meant "demonetization"... unless you were talking about Ross Ulbrecht? In which case I think it's impossible NOT to demonize someone who puts out hits, so... yeah. A minefield either way.
this is my comfort video. ive fell asleep to it so many times. I go to it when I feel down or when I feel happy. Thank you for making it.
soo glad i am not the only one!!!!
me too!
Fr, his voice is so comforting
Haha same here
How? this shit makes me so paranoid and uncomfortable
One of the craziest things is that the last episode of Breaking Bad where Heisenberg finally loses and dies aired on September 29, 2013. Breaking Bad was one of Ross's favorite shows. Ross was arrested on October 1, 2013. That means he was arrested just two days after the final episode was released. It was as if the universe was warning him, foreshadowing his ultimate downfall. And the parallels of Walter White and Ross Ulbritch is so unncanny. Both are incredibly talented, intellectual and educated people, uses their wits to get involved in the black market. Both became millionaires, but ulitmately became their own downfall in the end.
"I won't be blackmailed." - quote from man blackmailed.
Shut up, fucking weeb. -fucking weeb.
@@josephoyek6574 You sound like a moron -a moron
@@candeeartist8590 Artists are irrelevant - a smart man
@@chloewinnaa1515 I don't know what you're implying but whatever go off sis
@@candeeartist8590 just comtinuing the chain of insulting the person above. Nothin' personnel kid
Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that the FBI's plan to get the laptop was to have two of their agents pretend to have a lovers' quarrel, until Ross felt so awkward he'd leave, hopefully leaving his computer with all the info for his black market platform open and unattended? And even MORE hilarious that it _worked?_
Thats the kind of thing that would be in a comedy movie
SsnakeBite the more I think about that, the funnier it gets. We see two tricks in this video: an elaborate scam with multiple identities and carefully thought out reasoning, and a classic case of “hey! Look over there at that distraction!” Somehow, Ross fell for both
My take is the guy was a complete idiot who's narcissism made him believe he was untouchable. His arrest was inevitable.
Almosy makes it sound fake... or like he was set up.
Cpuld you imagine the cop that grabbed it amd was like ok i got it. You cam stop. Like imagine being ross in that situation wtf lol
The fact that he intended and was under the impression to have successfully have essentially 3 people taken out is enough for me to say he got what he deserved
Exactly. Blew my mind when BS said the sentence was too harsh. Ross did not care about anyone’s life but his own.
When you run a multi million dollar business…murder may indeed be a small portion of your success….i see no wrong here. He intended to do what anyone in his position hasn’t already done. Trust that shit
Which was arguably entrapment, not to mention the max penalty being 9 years in prison, not life without parole
@@TheTERMlNAT0R So you would be willing to commit murder to maintain your business?
@@dogguy8603 How was this entrapment? It wasn't law enforcement doing this, it was a scammer
Ross so terribly underestimated the forces that would come after him. it caused him fatal mistakes: not to have a much stricter instant lockdown encryption system on his laptop, and worst of all, leaving traces that led straight to himself, even carrying his own name.
the encryption would be useless once it was in the hands of the FBI they would crack that computer for everything it has
Also just straight up leaves computer open in public. Id never do that and I don't have that much to hide lol
Me who wanted to learn about the ancient Mongolian trade route: *anger*
Me too.
That YT recommended this to me who watches many history videos tells me that YT's AI is either not very sharp and didn't know that this video was not about the dangers of the ancient trading route or it is not simply sharp but has become self-aware and enjoys displaying its newfound sense of humor by recommending this video to history aficionados.
@@curtislowe4577 nah, computers are too stupid to understand context or humour
Just read books about silk road.😂😂
I was thinking the same
Imagine; You own the biggest online drug market on earth, making millions per week. Your bit coin wallet will eventually be worth multiple BILLIONS of dollars. Then you get caught because a fed stole your laptop using the oldest trick in the book.
Lol I would have expect him to be a smart Mafia boss but bruh got caught so easy
Real life day z, loose it al
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The 'Ole lovers quarrel, gets 'em everytime
I don’t have a shred of sympathy for Ross. He genuinely thought he murdered several people and was ok with that. I don’t even care if that’s not his charge. He’s a pretentious little slime ball and his parents are doing him NO favors by being in such denial. It’s pathetic, really. They’re now scammers themselves.
Cringey to hear the barely sociable clinging to these idealistic capitalist "he's just the embodiment of a market force man" as a way to forgive this shitty guy
I did think it to be clearly a scam until RedAndWhite appeared, I don't know exactly what it was, but before I knew it I was like "wait, so all those stories were actually real", and was completely hooked until the end. I think it was the same for DPR. The betrayal at the end that it was all a con was shocking and then hilarious. Like others mentioned it was still a tricky situation difficult to get out of, and that clearly played a part in fooling him (and me), but it's also so ironic that in trying to not be blackmailed he actually gave up twice than was originally asked for; it's just so beautiful, a complete and utter manipulation of emotions, intellect and intentions, a masterpiece dare I say
The first two , Friendlychemist, and lucydrop talked the exact same way to me so i also initially thought it was obviously a scam, but yeah something ab redandwhites persona switched it up for me too, his lingo switched up and it definitely didnt have the similarities the first two had, but when redandwhite was avoiding chatting on video ross shouldve knew something was up
It's like if Breaking Bad was a Discord server
Was literally thinking the same thing Haha
Did you know what I was thinking before I even thought about it?
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At the time Breaking Bad was pretty trendy so I would have imagined that Ross thought of himself as Walter, and that's probably part of the reason you think that way.
@@elijahpepe The book American Kingpin tells the story of how Ross made the Silk Road. There's quite a few parallels between him and Walter
What’s up Ross being so trusting? I feel like he’s the type of guy to believe there are hot singles in your area.
wongoli wongo he was tempted with the offer of Hell Angels. He might be a tech-savant but he lacked of prospectives about human nature.
Incompetent. It was bound to happen, really. The commerce tends to weed out these kinds of people. Everyone knows hits don't have fixed rates, those depend on how the hit transpires, the payments weren't even made with escrow and all before the supposed hit was done. What an amateur.
@@davidr5284 How do you know all this? lmao
wongoli wongo HAHAHHAHAHAHAH
Isn't it awesome!!! There's so many single milfs near me!!! And they all wanna fuck!!! They email me all the time!!!
They don't usually deal in hits but they have multiple professional local hitters available within 1 day. How did this not set off any red flags?
RNW:"hi stranger, I am a criminal and have commited multiple murders recently. Even though I know nothing about you and would have to assume you are a cop I will offer you multiple 1st grade murder felonies. All good? Now when are you going to pick me up?" The whole story had more holes than cheese
The man was inexperienced in this whole type of operation. I would not be surprised if the FBI hit had similar amount of holes in it. Dude's ego high was probably getting the better of him and made him think illogically
Because Ross was just a regular guy who was in way over his head. He's not the violent drug lord slash criminal mastermind the government made him out to be
This is an absolutely brilliant video on one of the most fascinating true stories I've ever heard. Extremely well done sir!
Did this guy literqlly just try to pull the "it's a social experiment" / "it's a prank" at the court
How is it a prank and what would be the point
Money Laundering, Drug Trafficking, and FAKE Hitman Prank/Social Experiment (GONE SEXUAL!) *NOT CLICKBAIT*
Imagine the judge setting him free 😂
@@brendan1871 with a fatass red arrow
Imagine the judge then being like "understandable, have a nice day"
disappointing, I was all geared up to talk trash about Marco Polo.
duuude saame, i thought this was about THE silk road....but this is interesting too ig
What's about marco polo
@@seaweed6668 He was a writer and explorer who allegedly travelled to East Asia via the Silk road
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Funniest comments thread yet (amongst MANY funnies!)
omg i think you just won every comment section ever. i really hope everyone does understand this as history even recent like ww2 history is being forgotten, oh man my stomach hurts this was such bad dry humor that it hit the nail on th head in one strike i'm dead
Great video
Who else is here from the tweet 👇
@@AdityaKumar-uf5home
U were talking like u saw this video earlier... nah bro, u just watched this video because of the tweet
Hey Daily! Found this video after seeing your tweet
Came here after your recommendation. Currently downloading, will watch it later.
I’m a lawyer, and sometimes with criminal cases the Defendant simply refuses to take a plea deal against your advice and you have to go to trial despite not really having a defense. Also remember you’re innocent until proven guilty. Sometimes the best Defense isnt to present your own evidence but to simply say the State hasn’t provided enough evidence to convict me. In my experience that’s usually the argument people who’ve been caught red handed go with.
I’m sure his lawyer thought they had some level of defense….or I believe the prosecution had some evidence that Ross’s lawyers didn’t anticipate?
@@TheTERMlNAT0R probably not. There is very rarely evidence that one side does not anticipate… prior to any court proceedings, the prosecution is forced to share all their evidence with the defense (even if the evidence would hurt the prosecution). I’m willing to bet MrSlimSheaD is right, and it was DPR who rejected the deal. The plea bargain was actually very generous - only 10 years for his crimes. I’m willing to bet his lawyer had a hand in organizing that. However, DPR was stupid and kinda full of himself. Plus, he had been planning his defense for a long time. The whole purpose behind the DPR user was so he could argue that the site was not his in the event he got arrested (which he did). It’s almost like he fantasized about getting arrested and then arguing his way out of court… even though any sane lawyer could see DPR’s only chance was getting a good plea deal.
The man who scammed dread pirates roberts is a genius
It's not genius, it should be the norm for anyone dealing with this stuff, but of course, there are so many incompetents. Social engineering is a very powerful skill.
It seemed a little too perfect half way thru, obvious some bs was happening
Honestly it was very obvious that Lucydrop and FC was the same person. You can tell from the first message Lucydrop replies to DPR. Also, redwhite said “he never spoke with any high level hells angels officers, so he doesn’t have anything on us” yet, a high level hells angels officer was messaging DPR after FC told them to contact DPR. All too convenient. I’m gonna lean on the side that DPR was a crazed idiot instead of the scammer was a genius.
@@spartanxdj Definitely this. I even say the scammer was way too sloppy, but DPR was just so incompetent he fell for it. The real masters of social engineering in the trade don't get caught at all.
@@spartanxdj reallucydrop also talked about friendlychemist without DPR saying anything about him
It is mindblowing to me that talking about hits and murders related to drug dealing is cool with youtube, but actually saying the names of drugs is tooooo much.
KZhead is backwards.
Shhhhhh don’t say anything YT doesn’t fix anything they just ban the next thing people bring up aswell
Liberal democrats
(American here) Aren't american laws fucking stupid when it comes to our media? NO BOOBS! THE NAKED BODY IS A SIN!!!! THE KIDS CAN'T SEE THAT! But people being stabbed and bombed and shot? Yeah that's fine for kids. What the fuck is wrong with our country? Why is America so weird about Nudity on TV, yet also has everyone "secretly" watching porn? It's just strange. I hate Europe for a lot of reasons, but their appreciation and common sense approach toward nudity is something I envy and wish America would follow on. It's the Human body.
You can still read the drug names
“We produce a lot of things that would get this video demonetized” made me laugh way too hard
Ross’ parents are definitely in denial. They have already decided he is innocent and therefore they can ask “show me the evidence” all they want, but we all know they will just come up with some story about how it’s fake, how it was planted, how he must have been framed, etc. They SHOULD be advocating for him to get some sort of leniency instead of spending the rest of his life in jail without possibility of parole. But to say he should have been acquitted!!?? They are delusional. Just because the people he ordered murdered were never killed doesn’t make him any less dangerous, since he fully believed they were real people.
So let me get this right, some guy tried to blackmail the owner of silk road for $500k, the owner wanted him killed to stop any info being leaked, so that guy created another account and pretended to be a member of Hell's Angels and faked his own assassination and others, so he could actually scam the owner for even more than he originally planned?
This is why people like him with no social skills or basic understanding of how the crime world works shouldn't be involved in crime(myself included)
@Rich depends on the criminal but usually yes
Social engineering 101
@MrKalashnik0va OK pickle Rick
I hear you on that. I thought Ross Ulbricht was a person with an above normal intelligence. But I was amazed that he could not put all this together and immediately see that he was being scammed, It seemed so obvious to me as I was reading the messages and timelines. I mean come on...Hells Angels!? LMAO. I would have banned all their accounts immediately with all that nonsense.
The fact that FriendlyChemist was supposedly murdered on the 1st of April is an excellent coincidence.
high caliber trolling
I want to laugh and not at the same time
@ghost Yeah I'll take a bucket, too
@@Thanosdidtherighthing op
@@Thanosdidtherighthing you got any of the hard stuff like strepsils?
The funniest part to me is that the scammer actually fucked up at one point while acting as RedandWhite - they say that they kidnapped FriendlyChemist's partner, not LucyDrop's, at 32:55. And Ulbricht didn't even notice, he just assumes they meant LucyDrop's partner! The scammer definitely isn't a great person by any stretch (based on the fact that they seem to have screwed over plenty of end customers as well), but I'd be lying if I didn't say I got quite a bit of schadenfreude from watching Ulbricht walk directly into this trap.
Well the customers were probably libertarians so I don't feel too bad.
I caught that too! Adding to the earlier slip-up with “real” Lucydrop asking how DPR knows Friendly Chemist… this guy’s really not paying attention.
Sounds like a flaw in all the SR type sites. The fact that any dealer could blackmail the admin with lists of customers. I guess it’s only a few dealers like Ellingson that would be in a position to do this but it still seems possible with other sites too.
facts
ok but why do hitman requests sound like negotiating art commissions?
😂😂😂
kurapikaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Bruhhh
Hahahahah
"Art requires a certain... cruelty" -some dude from a popular MOBA game who is obsessed with the number 4
Maybe the real Dread Pirate Roberts were the friends we made along the way.
BDtetra one piece reference? Lmfao
I literally dropped my phone from laughing
He should have quoted wesley in the court case when they asked if he was DPR
no i want my fucking drugs
BDtetra That is _not_ how you use an apostrophe.
I love the how the pure friendship and mutual respect was created in chats between R&W and DPR ❤
He scammed him tho
Yes! Me too, I am puzzled by their politeness. I mean, these are men that torture and kill others (ostensibly).
New idea for a yaoi fanfic ❤❤❤
This is absolutely one of *the* most interesting videos/docs on KZhead. Very well done, and what a crazy story!
"the dark side of an illegal drug site."
they probably meant the hidden side.
@@aBlindManOnAcid what the fuck
@Grace Asher Drugs. Thats the bright side
@kie fuck mdma do lsd or shrooms stay away from the addictive shit even psychedelics can be addictive
Drugs are good. A lot of people use them recreationally. People exchange money safely online for drugs. That’s good for any economy
I clicked thinking this was a history of the trade routes connecting Asia and Europe between ~200BC and ~1700AD
Same
You're not the only one 🙂
Same here
Your school project will be alot more exciting if you write about this
Then you’re dumb
put this video on expecting it to act as background noise while i finish a few essays, and wow. completely hooked. loved everything about the delivery and just thoroughly enjoyed. amazing watch
Genuinely one of the best videos on the internet.
not gonna lie I thought this was about the ancient silk road for some reason (Edit) : sub to josh bean vlogs
Flaming Goomba same! It wouldn’t be surprising if it was though. The Silk Road was certainly a dangerous and interesting trade route.
Omg me too and it took me a good minute to realize it wasn’t
I was dissappinted to find out it wasn't
Same, I was so excited to watch a video about all the unnerving shit that happen on the silk road that we never learned about in history class. Then I started watching the video and got even more excited!
Same, I feel like it was the camel in the thumbnail.
Okay well I clicked on this expecting some historical travesties about the Chinese trade route but jesus christ I got invested in something I was not expecting
lmaooo i thought that too
If you think this is a switch, wait til you visit r/superbowl on reddit. As a non-sports fan, I was very pleasantly surprised.
Thank god I wasn’t the only person expecting a historical video lmao
I thought the same thing as well
Me too, I was pleasantly surprised by this though
Wow man. I watched a doc on this somewhere and it was good but this video is insanely great. I just discovered your channel and have already suggested it to so many.
This is amazing, loving all your content in all your accounts, keep doing what you doing 👍👍
FriendlyChemist: the drug supplier that cares for his family.
Richard Roberson I mean he does have friendly in his name.
Walter White IRL
I DID THIS FOR YOU
Why not? He dealt LSD, far from heroin or even cocaine. They're just people, you're elevating them into something else.
@@infiltr80r People endangering their families for extra cash?
The real horror story here is the high amounts of bitcoins being tossed around.
For real, all those coins would be a fucking fortune today
It’s like a fucking treasure
Literally 1 coin is 28k now
facts holy fucking shit
@@youthening That first hit as of a couple hours ago would have been worth 58 million. lol
This was so well put together. Thank you so much. I enjoyed this a lot.
Coming back to this video, had to say, that still to this day this has been one of my absolute favorite videos on KZhead. Thanks!
I'm just amazed by the Hell's Angels' politeness and spelling.
Oh wait nvm, that's why
@@blackwersus LOOOL best comment!
and tech savvy too!
The hells angles do some crazy shit but iv had family members say that they are polite and genuinely like to help people
@@Ryan_scott15 yupp. My dad has ridden and worked on Harleys since I was a wee lass and the ones I've got to meet were nice 😇
It’s amazing that this whole shit was ultimately just 2 nerds talking to each other
these nerds are scary, my guy
@@TxBzSpectral I was shaking the entire time watching this whole ordeal. Amazing how these sorts of things are occurring on a day-to-day basis without the average person knowing a thing.
LMFAOOOOOOOOO yo I laughed so loud at this comment
No they're just intelligent criminals.
@@issamdjadja8701 “shacking” 🤔🤷🏽♂️🤯
Honestly, I feel like you’re the only creator outside of maybe yesterworld and like 2 others who actually puts thought and care into putting out a truthful and direct mostly unbiased documentary on events. Good on you man. Wish I had money to donate, but I don’t. Just know that I really enjoy your content.
This is by far the best video i've ever seen on youtube. Just came back to rewatch it and its truly amazing.
25:09 "You don't know how to handle this situation, but I do." *immediately gets scammed* Two life sentences won't heal this kind of fuckup.
Dont be foolish. All of that shit really happened
Hahahahaha I forgot he said that. Man that makes the burn critical
Eli Elshani - Ross is a Savage, I would be scared shitless being blackmailed
XD
Should've used NordVPN
should have taken a class from Skillshare to not get scammed haha
Should’ve changed identities using dollar shave club
You know what he should snack on while tucked away, hiding from hitmen? Nature Box.
should have played raid shadow legends
Could have saved about 15% of the trouble by using honey
Despite the sentence being too harsh, Ross is the definition of "if you can't do the time, don't do the crime". He was a soft, rich kid who lived in comfort, convenience and excess. He wasn't cut out to be involved in something as serious and dark as the black market. And yet he still pursued it. He loved feeling powerful, anonymous, being a big shot. He said he envisioned that one day, some stranger was gonna talk about Silk Road, not knowing it was him, the creator of it all. Well, he got caught and everybody now knows he was the creator. He thought hiring hitmen was cool and awesome and I think this pissed off the judge even more because the judge mentioned how it's fictional that Silk Road was a place of freedom because it was still governed by laws, not the state's laws, but laws that Ross imposed. It was Ross' decision who was worthy of death in his site. Who deserved to die and who gets a pass. While he was on Silk Road, he was the judge handing out death sentences to those he found guilty. Luckily, none of the assassinations ever happened but like BarelySociable says, it was all real in his mind. He only started regretting what he did after getting caught and experiencing prison life. Suddenly, the comforts and conveniences of his privileged lifestyle was all gone and he broke like a fragile vase tipped over the tabletop. In all of his letters in Ross org, he describes how difficult it is to be in prison. Prison life was too blunt and hard for him. Like I said, he was soft, he wasn't cut out for this. He played with fire, had fun with it and got burned alive. So yeah, he really is a case of "if you can't do the time, don't do the crime".
hells angels on a dark web market?? that's like the mafia selling on newspapers lol
You telling me the feds got his laptop by using the "look over there!" trick?
Even if he ignored the couple they would have tried something else later anyway. When the government is behind you and you dont know it, getting caught is just a matter of time.
@@cylemons8099 Death note style
@@generalhypocrisy1876 yeah it's called making sure the Gov't gets their cut, and you always play ball with them, and never piss them off. They're the biggest criminals of all, and have no issue working with and allowing other criminals to continue their business as long as you play by their rules and dont cause to many issues or draw to much attention..
Yup.
@@TommyGunz the thing with criminals are that they have a way of getting you and there’s always a way out. If someone speak with the right people, not those that thinks “sell sell money money” but those that are serious about it, you might be able to take from the government instead of kissing their ass. And on top of that we are on the good and the more intelligent side, there goes a lot more IQ and thought into doing drug dealing for the people that for example being a policeman because you want to show your glock. So if we find the right people we will Bruce lee those motherfuckers
To my NSA Agent, i swear im just watching this cause im curious
Trust me, nobody cares
Don't worry we don't consider this an issue - Not the NSA agent ;)
I swear I'm watching this because I thought it was the trade route silk road
Same
@@danny8284 Y Yyyy Y Yiy Yy
I'm so shocked about the story that you are presenting I did not know that any of this was going on. I want to say I thank you for taking the time to do these videos to educate those who are in the world that these things were going on right under our eyes
Anytime I’m bored and have nothing to do I rewatch this masterpiece of a video.
so glad this was randomly recommended to me. so fucking interesting
NurseCarnivore EXACTLY!
Agreed!
Saame maybe we're being targeted to investigate into some new "silk road" iam an avid tripper.
Explosive Joseph avid tripper? 🤔 tell me more 🤓
@@NurseCarnivore dont think too deep into it. means i trip avidly. If you dont understand my terminology you need more fun in your life.
I like how at the end he says have a good night, because this is exactly the type of video you watch at night
i’m watching at 4am
@@rebeccac324 shit, me too
I’m watching it at 2:15pm but it’s dark out cause it’s rainy
its 4 am and i'd watch it again
Shit put me to sleep
This is my comfort video I hope you know that I’ve watched this video over 20 times and I come back to it in my darkest moments because it’s such good storytelling and your voice is soothing
it’s my comfort vid too :D i sleep 2 this vid
Such a fun & inventive story and you tell it sooo well!
Damn homie was ordering murders like I order underwear on Amazon. I take the 5 for $20 pack every time.
No man it was the wish list
Lmfaooo
This dude don’t order nothing but fake hits if you include the fbi one. There’s a lot of nuance in how people talk and type and it’s almost like a fingerprint. Who did he think he was talking to? A Harvard graduate criminal mastermind. Who would this person have to be to have the combination of skills to do all the crimes they was talking about and write detailed messages in that manner. It sounds too noir fiction
"everytime?" MAAAAANNNN stop LYING You know us as men buy one or 2 packs of boxer briefs and we will have them for like 2-3yrs before getting New ones hahaaha My fault im just ME I tell it how it is hahHaha
Its scary how casually they’re talking about killing and kidnapping people.
What really scary is this is how ALL people with enough power think and operate. Including those in government.
"He's gone." Damn son.
DPR really called a hit on a guy with a wife and kids like Damn he deserves to be locked up
The guys he called a hit on were threatening to cage/kill thousands of people. Kinda an important detail you left out :s.
@@dennisne Cage? Yeah. Kill? Debatable. You could say comprising those people to the feds would put their lives in danger but he wouldn't put them in any physical harm directly. Also all DPR had to do was give him the money which is much more reasonable than taking a man's life considering DPR was insanely rich. Now that I think about it didn't he pay more to have him killed than he would have just giving him the money? He put the hit on him because he was a liability to his money, no moral reason.
Not sure what I expected when starting this video. I knew it wasn't going to be about an ancient trade route, but I wasn't expecting this either. Well done though, I don't think anyone has ever made reading a bunch of other people emails for an hour so interesting!
Came here for a documentary about the road 2000 years ago and got this, still earned yourself a sub this was incredible
i was expecting a history lesson about dudes on camels....
lool
Well boy howdy are you in for a ride
Me too
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same
“Can you make it 96 hours? I have big plans for the weekend...” when you are in a middle of a complicated standoff but you still want to show up at your best friends birthday BBQ... 😂
Lol. Yeah. The week in question was also the week of Ross Ulbricht's birthday. Damning indeed.
Mm yes yummy porkchop
Same thing I thought. Hahahahahh!!!!
Unreal.
That rack of ribs was calling his name
It’s my third or fourth time watching this, it’s like a good movie, you always can rewatch it
Great video, been a while since I watched an hour video this focused
I’m confused as to how Ross even fell for this. Seems like a huge scam from the start.
FBI open up! Its the FBI!
When it comes to drugs and money it seems like common sense goes out the window.
@The Mughal-killer not dumb at all except for his first error, posting on shroomery forum on open web with his username linked to his email. The rest is just part of dealing with the crazy underworld of the drug dark web, that the government still doesn't get how prohibition is causing more problems than legalization would. All of what you said would go out the window in 99% of people.
He was greedy. He could've stopped with the chemist assisnation but he kept going. Not to say that's what got him caught but it's pretty clear evidence that he was desperate to expand his business
If thats the case could it be ... *a cover story*
i was pissed off when they killed friendly chemist he was my favorite character
SAME
f in the chat
it make me so fucking happy when I heard RedandWhite was scamming him. It probably means the real people involved in the distribution were working alongside Hells Angels to scam the man.
@@jvlinx665 damn I agree
SPOILERS
Has anyone else rewatched this like ten times now? It's like an irl thriller movie.
so so many times, it is a perfect video to listen to
I think the thing that made the whole scam really work was the fact that the “original” blackmailer was threatening to release the personal information of other users and potentially steal from them as well. Obviously, it’s insane that he got involved in any of this murder for hire stuff, but I can also see how Ulbricht could justify it to himself by saying that he wasn’t just protecting himself, but a bunch of other people as well. Obviously it’s incredibly immoral, but I can imagine how a certain kind of person who wouldn’t do anything like this in the real world could go down that line if thinking.
Love how “hells angels” guy starts by claiming they don’t do hits and just a bit later he has all this intricate shit planned out
Exactly lol. “We don’t do hits” and then has guys that do recon, out of town guys, all professional’s who do it right and don’t f*** up. 😂
He was fucking with ross let's be honest lol
That’s what I thought lol they don’t call it that stuff when they don’t know for sure who they are talking to
yeah I've been threatned by them bc my dad fot ina fought woth one we almost brought it to court and they said they would kill all of my family we moved states
the most polite drug dealer ever
Plot twist: Ross was DreadPirateRoberts, FriendlyChemist, and RedAndWhite. This was Fight Club. It was all in his head.
You mean Fight club, right?
@@bounzig Damn, you're right.
F**** C***
I hate that I laughed hard at this for a while
Hey, the first rule is that you don't talk about it. The second rule is that you don't talk about it. I jokingly asked my wife of almost 19 years now to marry me when she said she loved that film. 15 months later, I did. I am Jack's midlife crisis these days.
I came here from that video on IG
ive been ignoring this video for years so its about time i watch everything
the fact he got scammed for 273 million dollars in today’s bitcoin is crazy
Right? Like holy shit, that’s insane.
289 million by now. This shit really is crazy.
it's crazy because that's not even a 10% of what he got seized back then. He'd have over 5 billion today.
It’s fake
@@user-bs1lr4qj8r youre fake, robot
How Ross was caught straight up sounds like a skit from snl
It wouldn't even be hard to render that method useless. If you take proper precautions, somebody "just grabbing your phone/tablet/laptop and running away" would be laughably easy to defeat. In a variety of ways.
Couldn’t stop watching this, good stuff! Kept me entertained at work for a moment.
Awesome video! Crazy research went into this! Thanks 🙏🏼
As a history nerd, I have once again been bamboozled.
it is history, just not that far back
@@benadrylsmoke5481 if I had a Reddit account id whoosh you so hard bro
@@harrylane4 doesn't work bro considering 50% of my humor comes from taking things literally so r/woooosh
relatable
@@benadrylsmoke5481 r/saved
The real crime here is all of the awful deep web creepypastas this case inspired.
Creepybullshit there is a lot of bad stuff that happens in that part of the internet, look for the no limits fun case, Peter scully, dude ran a company on child por and murder
@@kendarr you shouldn't talk about that nobody should view the things that man made and I feel sorry for your soul since I know you've seen it disturbing things you can never forget
@@unknownanon4993 Oh i've seen some shit, but if we don't talk about the monster we can't fight it
@@kendarr damn Victor and I saw this comment and I searched it up on KZhead,terrifying stuff out there.
@@kendarr The murder part is a hoax started by takedownman. He's a well known liar.
Today is a historic day. It's 10 years since FriendlyChemist was murdered. Rest in Peace, "Blake".
i know im late to the party on this one but outstanding video. you really did a great job with this one brother the boys are proud of you 💪🙏
Why would a person that runs a dark web market that sells illegal items use a gmail with their real name
Hahaha good point
He made and used that gmail when he was just starting to make that website. Then forgot or couldnt destroy all mentions of that gmail from the internet.
I never understood why people use their entire name as their email. That's just dumb.
That sounds like trouble waiting to happen.
People are really smart until they aren’t.
"we produce things that can get this video demonitized" *can still see through the blurry words*
What does it say
As long as you somewhat blurry it and not mention it, it's all good.
I need to contact some of them hell's angels for some lsd, it's hard to find any out here.
Is there another Silk Road? I heard that other sites went up literally hours after the first one was shut down so I’m sure you could download TOR and find some there.
@@gefagnis Dream market is bigger than Silk Road
Extremely well made documentary, new subscriber. 👌👍