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How does a merit badge-bedecked Eagle Scout become the head of a thriving online black market worth a billion dollars?
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The story presented in American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road could be the next AMC hit series: a Libertarian Eagle Scout lives a double life and builds Silk Road, an illicit online marketplace where all manner of contraband can be exchanged anonymously — and hires outlaw bikers to eliminate threats to his autonomy.
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In 2011, a 26-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine website hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything - drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons - free of the government's watchful eye.
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