Read the biography of Ulbricht "American Kingpin". The author does a good job of breaking down the sequence of really stupid things that the Silk Road founder d

Read the biography of Ulbricht "American Kingpin". The author does a good job of breaking down the sequence of really stupid things that the Silk Road founder did to expose himself over time. None of them had much of anything to do with the failures of anonymity technologies like TOR. Also, as another response here mentions, ordering fake IDs online to his own home address is exceptionally fucking stupid.