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The Silk Road reference--is he saying he was working for Chinese interests? Where was the sensor data coming from? I understand it's probably a painful story t
by themodelplumber 10y ago
The Silk Road reference--is he saying he was working for Chinese interests? Where was the sensor data coming from?
I understand it's probably a painful story to tell, but a lot of little details are missing here, and they'd probably help both the author's friends and new readers like me understand what happened.
- phpnode 10y agoHe's talking about the Silk Road marketplace - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)
- themodelplumber 10y agoThanks, so it sounds like the SpaceX pitch was just the client wanting to build up a really cool cover story while he worked on(?) Silk Road in secret. Right?
- phpnode 10y agoPresumably yes, and the datapoints being visualised would have presumably been transactions. The admin in question would have been Blake Benthall, not Ross Ulbricht who'd already been caught by then.
- elastic_church 10y agoSilk Road 2.0, Not Ross Ulbricht's but a different Dread Pirate Roberts
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