The Amazon for drugs, baby! Finally, a place to procure all of your actual favourite things, safeguarded behind the wizard's curtain that is Tor, employing the fungibility of the untraceable cryptocurrency bitcoin. What if you could buy and sell drugs online like books or light bulbs? Now you can: Welcome to Silk Road." "Making small talk with your pot dealer sucks. With the following four legendary sentences, reporter Adrian Chen pounded the Silk Road website into the global mainstream, and caught the attention of casual coke snorters, libertarian Ayn Rand fetishists, hard-core heroin junkies, ambitious FBI agents and right-wing moral-panic artistes: The Silk Road, for those of you who don't buy fentanyl or Tec-9 guns online, was a virtual souk that trafficked in every species of contraband, and become the bête noire of various law-enforcement agencies after Gawker broke news of the site in June, 2011. His latest book, which follows his similarly brisk, comprehensive history of Twitter, will surely emerge as the definitive account of the Silk Road saga. Bilton is a Vanity Fair special correspondent who focuses on business and tech with some commitment – according to the press material, his dog's name is Pixel. Turns out, the stench of 100-per-cent Colombian is pretty much the only way to read this caffeinated, drug-stuffed procedural. Shortly after receiving my review copy of Nick Bilton's American Kingpin, I accidentally dumped the contents of my World's #1 Dad coffee mug all over it.
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