Fair warning. Tons of spoilers in the comments. Follow up video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y4qOzcuKhd2vhLg.html

@amuricuh6143

4 жыл бұрын

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 :(

@Nik-ff3tu

4 жыл бұрын

You sir are a talented investigative journalist. I'm hooked

@gaia260686

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@notbigboss9254

4 жыл бұрын

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

@OwenTheTitan

4 жыл бұрын

what’s the next video?

Took me 8 seconds to realize this is not the about overland trade routes of the Han dynasty

@kuhataparunks

4 жыл бұрын

this is literally what I thought this video was about, rofl

@Jamsomeone

4 жыл бұрын

Same 😂 still watched it though

@NoobsofFredo

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jamsomeone Me as well.

@TheWicked696

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@Likes_Trains

4 жыл бұрын

I said exactly the same thing out loud :'D

I watched this genuinely wanting a history of the dark side of a trade route 2,150 years ago, however still satisfied

@boywithoutsoul587

2 жыл бұрын

I was hoping the same as I'm currently studying Economics in Uni. But shit went dark real quick

@lolineko2083

2 жыл бұрын

The camel on the sand path definitely was misleading xD

@eclecticsoffy

2 жыл бұрын

Same here

@jondoe2k

2 жыл бұрын

Me too 🤪

@Chrischrischis

2 жыл бұрын

😭

"I've only ever commissioned one other hit, so I'm still learning this market" is CRAZY

@gabrielcamposagrado

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, that was so callous, non-chalant and heartless.

@bajorekjon

29 күн бұрын

So casual. Like he was sending an email to his boss or something

@andreimoldovan1633

19 күн бұрын

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

@aegonthedragon7303

10 ай бұрын

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.

@topspot4834

28 күн бұрын

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.

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.

@_pyxeled

4 жыл бұрын

I am forever going to call silk "worm-cloth" now, thank you

@choog2752

4 жыл бұрын

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

@astersaur

4 жыл бұрын

Piehogger mood

@johnnypapa9248

4 жыл бұрын

Aha same here i was hoping for some epic stories about the Mongols or something

@2econd428

4 жыл бұрын

Lmaooooo same!

Came for the historic trade route. Stayed for the dreadlock pirate.

@joshuateran3728

3 жыл бұрын

kash Bamba same

@feelingfriskyx560

3 жыл бұрын

get agrop

@UltraNyan

3 жыл бұрын

Well it was an historic trade route for the internet

@GustavoTeixeira-hu1ck

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@everything777

3 жыл бұрын

Dread pirate

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.

@Tourettes0

Жыл бұрын

soo glad i am not the only one!!!!

@Obstile

Жыл бұрын

me too!

@kurtgulbro1542

Жыл бұрын

Fr, his voice is so comforting

@IIIDarkWorlDIII

Жыл бұрын

Haha same here

@Jason-wp4hw

Жыл бұрын

How? this shit makes me so paranoid and uncomfortable

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.

@PrezVeto

Жыл бұрын

It depends on exactly how the statutes are worded. The legal issue would've been the same regardless of who he was talking to.

@easternrebel1061

Жыл бұрын

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".

@BigFreem

Жыл бұрын

It’s pretty widely assumed that he was indeed talking to LE

@easternrebel1061

Жыл бұрын

@@BigFreem assumptions mean absolutely nothing without hard proof.

@icep0pp

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely nailed it.

"I won't be blackmailed." - quote from man blackmailed.

@josephoyek6574

4 жыл бұрын

Shut up, fucking weeb. -fucking weeb.

@candeeartist8590

4 жыл бұрын

@@josephoyek6574 You sound like a moron -a moron

@chloewinnaa1515

4 жыл бұрын

@@candeeartist8590 Artists are irrelevant - a smart man

@candeeartist8590

4 жыл бұрын

@@chloewinnaa1515 I don't know what you're implying but whatever go off sis

@chloewinnaa1515

4 жыл бұрын

@@candeeartist8590 just comtinuing the chain of insulting the person above. Nothin' personnel kid

This man straight up baited the whole entire World History fan community

@johntan5105

3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU! but it was worth it

@connorholt2979

3 жыл бұрын

honestly yes

@Jenkowelten

3 жыл бұрын

He got me

@aryboss1514

3 жыл бұрын

He got me, but HE DIDN'T. Because I am also a huge internet guy.

@SmoreLegend

3 жыл бұрын

Came for the world history, stayed for the lulz

Great video

@AdityaKumar-uf5ho

6 ай бұрын

Who else is here from the tweet 👇

@mateuslira3411

6 ай бұрын

​@@AdityaKumar-uf5home

@pro-ts9xu

6 ай бұрын

U were talking like u saw this video earlier... nah bro, u just watched this video because of the tweet

@ChristinaMagma

6 ай бұрын

Hey Daily! Found this video after seeing your tweet

@Tirth-Patel

6 ай бұрын

Came here after your recommendation. Currently downloading, will watch it later.

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 😂

@mbtravel7294

Жыл бұрын

Its called not being street smart

@brothermanbill8358

Жыл бұрын

@@mbtravel7294 Mhm

@jeremyb5407

Жыл бұрын

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

@rykaz8081

Жыл бұрын

The hell does being from Texas have to do wit anything 😂😂

@teddyroth1514

11 ай бұрын

UT Dallas

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?_

@newageweeb4049

4 жыл бұрын

Thats the kind of thing that would be in a comedy movie

@matthewherr1588

4 жыл бұрын

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

@JoeNoshow27

4 жыл бұрын

My take is the guy was a complete idiot who's narcissism made him believe he was untouchable. His arrest was inevitable.

@TheDanAge

4 жыл бұрын

Almosy makes it sound fake... or like he was set up.

@californiapoontappa

4 жыл бұрын

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

"we produce a lot of things that would get this video demonetized" its really considerate of them to be so concerned with your video

@jacksonelh

4 жыл бұрын

those hell's angels folks seem mighty fine

@GeneralRaam03

4 жыл бұрын

Kevin Nix r/woooosh

@CODYLOUIS

4 жыл бұрын

@Kevin Nix I either love u, or hate u for that comment.

@2supergg

4 жыл бұрын

@@jacksonelh they are canadians after all

@britsaunders2151

4 жыл бұрын

@@RadkeMaiden we do quite enjoy our crack addicts.

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.

@acat6145

Жыл бұрын

the encryption would be useless once it was in the hands of the FBI they would crack that computer for everything it has

@LDAR

4 ай бұрын

Also just straight up leaves computer open in public. Id never do that and I don't have that much to hide lol

This is an absolutely brilliant video on one of the most fascinating true stories I've ever heard. Extremely well done sir!

It's like if Breaking Bad was a Discord server

@trainmaniacstudios8216

3 жыл бұрын

Was literally thinking the same thing Haha

@connorowen1560

3 жыл бұрын

Did you know what I was thinking before I even thought about it?

@MrUkulele671

3 жыл бұрын

Best comment

@elijahpepe

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@joshuagtz95

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

Dude was so manipulated didn't even question the blackmail.txt

@eyegrinder94

4 жыл бұрын

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?

@kaiseramadeus233

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

@fatpen9731

4 жыл бұрын

Who was redndwhite and friendlychemist ?

@bcklee1

4 жыл бұрын

takitaki rumbah the same person, ross got scammed

@styxzero1675

4 жыл бұрын

@@fatpen9731 I think they were all the same guy... Lucy, Rednwhite and friendlychemist were all this James Ellingson guy that later got arrested.

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

@etherealsunflowers

4 ай бұрын

Exactly. Blew my mind when BS said the sentence was too harsh. Ross did not care about anyone’s life but his own.

@TheTERMlNAT0R

2 ай бұрын

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

@dogguy8603

2 ай бұрын

Which was arguably entrapment, not to mention the max penalty being 9 years in prison, not life without parole

@the_tax_consultant

Ай бұрын

​@@TheTERMlNAT0R So you would be willing to commit murder to maintain your business?

@wergthy6392

Ай бұрын

@@dogguy8603 How was this entrapment? It wasn't law enforcement doing this, it was a scammer

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?

@Jartran72

Жыл бұрын

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

@CatholicPiccolo

11 ай бұрын

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

@bajorekjon

29 күн бұрын

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

Me who wanted to learn about the ancient Mongolian trade route: *anger*

@adityarai5367

3 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@curtislowe4577

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@markusTegelane

3 жыл бұрын

@@curtislowe4577 nah, computers are too stupid to understand context or humour

@asadullahkhan1004

3 жыл бұрын

Just read books about silk road.😂😂

@goodguycg

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same

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.

@TuberoseKisser

4 жыл бұрын

KZread is backwards.

@23mega23

4 жыл бұрын

Shhhhhh don’t say anything YT doesn’t fix anything they just ban the next thing people bring up aswell

@Thumper68

4 жыл бұрын

Liberal democrats

@ZeranZeran

4 жыл бұрын

(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.

@spinetta0010

4 жыл бұрын

You can still read the drug names

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

@8.5.edibles

9 ай бұрын

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

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.

@TheTERMlNAT0R

2 ай бұрын

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?

@cherrycola1144

2 ай бұрын

@@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.

Did this guy literqlly just try to pull the "it's a social experiment" / "it's a prank" at the court

@miclelakes7413

3 жыл бұрын

How is it a prank and what would be the point

@brendan1871

3 жыл бұрын

Money Laundering, Drug Trafficking, and FAKE Hitman Prank/Social Experiment (GONE SEXUAL!) *NOT CLICKBAIT*

@yaboyjonez9476

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine the judge setting him free 😂

@renefgc

3 жыл бұрын

@@brendan1871 with a fatass red arrow

@simonm-m8106

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine the judge then being like "understandable, have a nice day"

ok but why do hitman requests sound like negotiating art commissions?

@spring7643

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@tonix1993

3 жыл бұрын

kurapikaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

@NorthernGreenEyes

3 жыл бұрын

Bruhhh

@silariadown5468

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahah

@tacomeme429

3 жыл бұрын

"Art requires a certain... cruelty" -some dude from a popular MOBA game who is obsessed with the number 4

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 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.

@the_lava_wielder6996

4 ай бұрын

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

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?

@sinsoftheswamp8346

4 жыл бұрын

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)

@sinsoftheswamp8346

4 жыл бұрын

@Rich depends on the criminal but usually yes

@luk7400

4 жыл бұрын

Social engineering 101

@starry_stelle

4 жыл бұрын

@MrKalashnik0va OK pickle Rick

@james_gemma

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

@drcommondrate12

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@davidr5284

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@realawesomeperson24

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidr5284 How do you know all this? lmao

@princessulku

4 жыл бұрын

wongoli wongo HAHAHHAHAHAHAH

@ollyoxenfrey5417

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't it awesome!!! There's so many single milfs near me!!! And they all wanna fuck!!! They email me all the time!!!

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.

@noahconley7514

10 ай бұрын

facts

“We produce a lot of things that would get this video demonetized” made me laugh way too hard

disappointing, I was all geared up to talk trash about Marco Polo.

@neonpee

4 жыл бұрын

duuude saame, i thought this was about THE silk road....but this is interesting too ig

@seaweed6668

4 жыл бұрын

What's about marco polo

@PointNemo9

4 жыл бұрын

@@seaweed6668 He was a writer and explorer who allegedly travelled to East Asia via the Silk road

@AmberAmber

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Funniest comments thread yet (amongst MANY funnies!)

@jerseybound717

4 жыл бұрын

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

"the dark side of an illegal drug site."

@ldohlj1

4 жыл бұрын

they probably meant the hidden side.

@markosimic

4 жыл бұрын

@@aBlindManOnAcid what the fuck

@nicob6481

4 жыл бұрын

@Grace Asher Drugs. Thats the bright side

@Eazycree

4 жыл бұрын

@kie fuck mdma do lsd or shrooms stay away from the addictive shit even psychedelics can be addictive

@nickbryant2318

4 жыл бұрын

Drugs are good. A lot of people use them recreationally. People exchange money safely online for drugs. That’s good for any economy

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.

I love the how the pure friendship and mutual respect was created in chats between R&W and DPR ❤

@2good4soccer

8 ай бұрын

He scammed him tho

@sw5646

5 ай бұрын

Yes! Me too, I am puzzled by their politeness. I mean, these are men that torture and kill others (ostensibly).

@atypicalpinetree4212

Ай бұрын

New idea for a yaoi fanfic ❤❤❤

The man who scammed dread pirates roberts is a genius

@davidr5284

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@Hausershawn

4 жыл бұрын

It seemed a little too perfect half way thru, obvious some bs was happening

@spartanxdj

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@davidr5284

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@syrup7894

4 жыл бұрын

@@spartanxdj reallucydrop also talked about friendlychemist without DPR saying anything about him

I like how at the end he says have a good night, because this is exactly the type of video you watch at night

@rebeccac324

4 жыл бұрын

i’m watching at 4am

@heretustay

4 жыл бұрын

@@rebeccac324 shit, me too

@samsfog3591

4 жыл бұрын

I’m watching it at 2:15pm but it’s dark out cause it’s rainy

@moldo7799

4 жыл бұрын

its 4 am and i'd watch it again

@Yung813

4 жыл бұрын

Shit put me to sleep

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.

@twinzzlers

Жыл бұрын

Well the customers were probably libertarians so I don't feel too bad.

@IAmStillHere-ws4jc

4 ай бұрын

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.

@jimzafiriou7808

11 күн бұрын

Nice spotting, I missed that.

I find it hilarious that someone can say, with a straight face: "He started a dark net marketplace to spread freedom and liberty!" About someone who made millions and millions of dollars facilitating the sale of over a billion worth of illegal drugs

I clicked thinking this was a history of the trade routes connecting Asia and Europe between ~200BC and ~1700AD

@rx500android

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@jekanbg

4 жыл бұрын

You're not the only one 🙂

@jeffreytoman5202

4 жыл бұрын

Same here

@cash3394

4 жыл бұрын

Your school project will be alot more exciting if you write about this

@imposter-982

4 жыл бұрын

Then you’re dumb

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

@agustinvega8969

3 жыл бұрын

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. 😂

@theguywhocomments5713

3 жыл бұрын

He was fucking with ross let's be honest lol

@adamarmstrong6646

3 жыл бұрын

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

@gothie9507

3 жыл бұрын

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

@cucumber623

3 жыл бұрын

the most polite drug dealer ever

This is absolutely one of *the* most interesting videos/docs on KZread. Very well done, and what a crazy story!

hells angels on a dark web market?? that's like the mafia selling on newspapers lol

the fact he got scammed for 273 million dollars in today’s bitcoin is crazy

@brendan9868

3 жыл бұрын

Right? Like holy shit, that’s insane.

@TheCooPeer

3 жыл бұрын

289 million by now. This shit really is crazy.

@Zel

3 жыл бұрын

it's crazy because that's not even a 10% of what he got seized back then. He'd have over 5 billion today.

@user-bs1lr4qj8r

3 жыл бұрын

It’s fake

@Th3Mavr1ck

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-bs1lr4qj8r youre fake, robot

The real horror story here is the high amounts of bitcoins being tossed around.

@SESK98

3 жыл бұрын

For real, all those coins would be a fucking fortune today

@Sean-vz9ij

3 жыл бұрын

It’s like a fucking treasure

@goulzz9684

3 жыл бұрын

Literally 1 coin is 28k now

@youthening

3 жыл бұрын

facts holy fucking shit

@paulaldwin209

3 жыл бұрын

@@youthening That first hit as of a couple hours ago would have been worth 58 million. lol

Genuinely one of the best videos on the internet.

42:17 “good luck and be safe” had to actually come and look at my phone to make sure I heard that right because LOOOOOOOOOL

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.

@evaluna122

4 жыл бұрын

Lol I would have expect him to be a smart Mafia boss but bruh got caught so easy

@tachanka1283

4 жыл бұрын

Real life day z, loose it al

@chantzmccauley696

4 жыл бұрын

Can We Get A F In Chat?

@blackdevilwhitedemon

4 жыл бұрын

E

@okandokandsson2078

4 жыл бұрын

The 'Ole lovers quarrel, gets 'em everytime

LMFAO avoiding demonization must have been like walking through a minefield

@suprcrzy

4 жыл бұрын

"Tony76 AKA Canuck"... Ummm, I don't think his name was simply "Canuck" 😂

@nealdamkjer192

4 жыл бұрын

"I walk through minefields...YEEEAAAHHHHH!" - Keith Flint (Prodigy)

@nealdamkjer192

4 жыл бұрын

@@suprcrzy GD you can't say nipple??? YT sucks

@alial-issa6893

4 жыл бұрын

Karl Dennis lucy in the sky with Tony

@NorthernKitty

4 жыл бұрын

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.

Anytime I’m bored and have nothing to do I rewatch this masterpiece of a video.

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

Should've used NordVPN

@pwnmonkeyisreal

4 жыл бұрын

should have taken a class from Skillshare to not get scammed haha

@0riain468

4 жыл бұрын

Should’ve changed identities using dollar shave club

@bulksquatthrust8792

4 жыл бұрын

You know what he should snack on while tucked away, hiding from hitmen? Nature Box.

@pr4thidude465

4 жыл бұрын

should have played raid shadow legends

@starsax6451

4 жыл бұрын

Could have saved about 15% of the trouble by using honey

The fact that FriendlyChemist was supposedly murdered on the 1st of April is an excellent coincidence.

@user-my9ok1nz1j

3 жыл бұрын

high caliber trolling

@dazaway

3 жыл бұрын

I want to laugh and not at the same time

@BahhBahhBrownSheep

3 жыл бұрын

@ghost Yeah I'll take a bucket, too

@QVlogs.

3 жыл бұрын

@@Thanosdidtherighthing op

@twat3789

3 жыл бұрын

@@Thanosdidtherighthing you got any of the hard stuff like strepsils?

This is amazing, loving all your content in all your accounts, keep doing what you doing 👍👍

Coming back to this video, had to say, that still to this day this has been one of my absolute favorite videos on KZread. Thanks!

“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... 😂

@creepypastagoblin1950

3 жыл бұрын

Lol. Yeah. The week in question was also the week of Ross Ulbricht's birthday. Damning indeed.

@Salukis

3 жыл бұрын

Mm yes yummy porkchop

@kregoryklements6918

3 жыл бұрын

Same thing I thought. Hahahahahh!!!!

@harrymills2770

2 жыл бұрын

Unreal.

@Profoundobserver

2 жыл бұрын

That rack of ribs was calling his name

Maybe the real Dread Pirate Roberts were the friends we made along the way.

@suckmyb0222

4 жыл бұрын

BDtetra one piece reference? Lmfao

@FanFicnic

4 жыл бұрын

I literally dropped my phone from laughing

@vertexed5540

4 жыл бұрын

He should have quoted wesley in the court case when they asked if he was DPR

@neophyticSeraphim

4 жыл бұрын

no i want my fucking drugs

@asbestosfish_

4 жыл бұрын

BDtetra That is _not_ how you use an apostrophe.

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 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

@cattisms

9 ай бұрын

it’s my comfort vid too :D i sleep 2 this vid

How Ross was caught straight up sounds like a skit from snl

@reesetorwad8346

4 жыл бұрын

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.

I'm just amazed by the Hell's Angels' politeness and spelling.

@blackwersus

3 жыл бұрын

Oh wait nvm, that's why

@RealRotkohl

3 жыл бұрын

@@blackwersus LOOOL best comment!

@kayel2849

3 жыл бұрын

and tech savvy too!

@Ryan_scott15

3 жыл бұрын

The hells angles do some crazy shit but iv had family members say that they are polite and genuinely like to help people

@Babyvalkyie

3 жыл бұрын

@@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 😇

Has anyone else rewatched this like ten times now? It's like an irl thriller movie.

@Tourettes0

Жыл бұрын

so so many times, it is a perfect video to listen to

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.

They're ordering hits like takeout. Jesus Christ

@greta8849

4 жыл бұрын

lol

@Iloverandomness100

4 жыл бұрын

I can’t believe he can’t get caught for that. That’s literally with the intent of having someone killed. Could’ve used it if they didn’t fuck up the whole trial. He paid to have like 6 people killed lmao. Weren’t really people but he didn’t know that.

@CasaiAgicap

4 жыл бұрын

Hi! Can I Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Can I get a murder to go please?

@xcupcakeszx

4 жыл бұрын

@@Iloverandomness100 You can't be charged with the murder of a person who doesn't exist. Falling for a scam is not a crime even if it's one that, if real would've resulted in a high body count

@Iloverandomness100

4 жыл бұрын

baplottwist no but in some opinions it’s a premeditated even. He had the intent to kill 6 human beings he thought were real. Maybe not murder charge but plotting yes he should have

To my NSA Agent, i swear im just watching this cause im curious

@danny8284

3 жыл бұрын

Trust me, nobody cares

@kenbrunet6120

3 жыл бұрын

Don't worry we don't consider this an issue - Not the NSA agent ;)

@qwack7032

3 жыл бұрын

I swear I'm watching this because I thought it was the trade route silk road

@Ed336

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@superx6978

3 жыл бұрын

@@danny8284 Y Yyyy Y Yiy Yy

This is by far the best video i've ever seen on youtube. Just came back to rewatch it and its truly amazing.

This was so well put together. Thank you so much. I enjoyed this a lot.

I don’t remember the last time I watched an entire hour+ long video without skipping... great storytelling and narrative skills.

@caringheart34

4 жыл бұрын

I watched inquisitormaster's 5 hour long video about John Doe with my eyes open about ten times already since 2017, let me say, it was bad.

@PeterMwangi-pe5uz

4 жыл бұрын

Same here, his narrative skills and keeping us captivated shines through. Some channels even a ten minute video feels like torture

@maxwell1934

4 жыл бұрын

true

@cookie123.

4 жыл бұрын

try fredrik knudsen

@HopeCasias10

4 жыл бұрын

ZP accurate

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

@heyitsrin6556

4 жыл бұрын

lmaooo i thought that too

@raksh9

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@jabby6709

4 жыл бұрын

Thank god I wasn’t the only person expecting a historical video lmao

@davidlawrence9782

4 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing as well

@carsoncarruthers9606

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, I was pleasantly surprised by this though

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".

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!

Plot twist: Ross was DreadPirateRoberts, FriendlyChemist, and RedAndWhite. This was Fight Club. It was all in his head.

@bounzig

3 жыл бұрын

You mean Fight club, right?

@md.niamulahadchowdhury6407

3 жыл бұрын

@@bounzig Damn, you're right.

@gabriel-qz9ps

3 жыл бұрын

F**** C***

@Monasaurus_Rex

3 жыл бұрын

I hate that I laughed hard at this for a while

@kdawson020279

3 жыл бұрын

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.

Oh my god, this is basically a documentary

@calebsherman886

4 жыл бұрын

It's amazing, isn't it?

@KandiBabyy

4 жыл бұрын

Caleb Sherman YESSSSSSS!

@dns7095

4 жыл бұрын

I’m not mad

@ewok47

4 жыл бұрын

only the BEST documentary

@something6510

4 жыл бұрын

Shane Dawson should take notes.

I came here from that video on IG

ive been ignoring this video for years so its about time i watch everything

so glad this was randomly recommended to me. so fucking interesting

@gillhammer333

4 жыл бұрын

NurseCarnivore EXACTLY!

@NarcolepticNerdProductions

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@popdelix581

4 жыл бұрын

Saame maybe we're being targeted to investigate into some new "silk road" iam an avid tripper.

@NurseCarnivore

4 жыл бұрын

Explosive Joseph avid tripper? 🤔 tell me more 🤓

@popdelix581

4 жыл бұрын

@@NurseCarnivore dont think too deep into it. means i trip avidly. If you dont understand my terminology you need more fun in your life.

Its scary how casually they’re talking about killing and kidnapping people.

@Keithington249

4 жыл бұрын

What really scary is this is how ALL people with enough power think and operate. Including those in government.

@phillipsmith6704

4 жыл бұрын

"He's gone." Damn son.

@jameer7565

4 жыл бұрын

DPR really called a hit on a guy with a wife and kids like Damn he deserves to be locked up

@dennisne

4 жыл бұрын

The guys he called a hit on were threatening to cage/kill thousands of people. Kinda an important detail you left out :s.

@jameer7565

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

It’s my third or fourth time watching this, it’s like a good movie, you always can rewatch it

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

Why the hell would you walk away from a computer while logged in to your multi-million dollar startup?

@dustinblack2006

4 жыл бұрын

It's probably a stretch by the fbi to cover their asses about how they actually acquired the laptop.

@MemberNo2

4 жыл бұрын

Ulbricht didn't leave his computer. He simply turned his head to look at the commotion that was happening behind him. An FBI agent quickly walked up to Ulbricht's laptop (from a direction outside Ulbricht's peripheral vision), grabbed the laptop and then tossed it to a fellow agent. It all happened in a couple of seconds.

@derekk.2263

4 жыл бұрын

Why would you go to a library to sell drugs.

@billtheone3467

4 жыл бұрын

@@derekk.2263 public network

@6000hall

4 жыл бұрын

@@derekk.2263 For the thrill

not gonna lie I thought this was about the ancient silk road for some reason (Edit) : sub to josh bean vlogs

@dandeliontea6299

4 жыл бұрын

Flaming Goomba same! It wouldn’t be surprising if it was though. The Silk Road was certainly a dangerous and interesting trade route.

@victoriaroybal5738

4 жыл бұрын

Omg me too and it took me a good minute to realize it wasn’t

@josephbell3248

4 жыл бұрын

I was dissappinted to find out it wasn't

@nickrunyon1129

4 жыл бұрын

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!

@user-sc4hv8qe6f

4 жыл бұрын

Same, I feel like it was the camel in the thumbnail.

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.

Came here for a documentary about the road 2000 years ago and got this, still earned yourself a sub this was incredible

Why would a person that runs a dark web market that sells illegal items use a gmail with their real name

@twistedking89

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha good point

@ozku2878

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@DavidKen878

3 жыл бұрын

I never understood why people use their entire name as their email. That's just dumb.

@DCNRS90YT

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds like trouble waiting to happen.

@Penryn87

3 жыл бұрын

People are really smart until they aren’t.

This guy must play GTA V roleplay servers like a God. Pulling off three different identities perfectly

@zeppkfw

4 жыл бұрын

When your years of GTA V roleplaying experience makes you a millionaire.

@jeobonilla

4 жыл бұрын

Wtf... this is a thing?

@zeppkfw

4 жыл бұрын

@@jeobonilla You must be new to the internet my boy?

@jeobonilla

4 жыл бұрын

ZeppKF Yeah day one... idk how I missed gta role play 🙄

@ColeFo

4 жыл бұрын

jeobonilla you poor soul

I think i watched this two years ago. Again can't stop watching.

this man's voice brings this story all together. i love it sm

Wow the person who scammed him hit a gold mine. Turns out the Friendly Chemist wasn't that friendly after all.

@notstinky9274

4 жыл бұрын

Hostile chemist

@LDAR

4 жыл бұрын

@@notstinky9274 i hate that i laughed at that

The real twist would be if even DreadPirateRoberts was just another one of this dude's aliases and everything was just him talking to himself.

@kimgysen10

2 жыл бұрын

And then ending up in prison for talking to himself like a real bozo lmao.

@tempzira

2 жыл бұрын

That's some shutter island shit HAHAHAHA

@cbracing808

2 жыл бұрын

Well if you can believe that dread was another alias of this same dude and Ross was a fall guy, then that was actually a pretty good idea. I assume this guy is serving time for drugs and blackmail, which I alot better than going down as the silk road mastermind which guarentee gets life in prison..... plus if that's that case, he probably has millions in bitcoin hidden because nobody looked that hard after they found ross..... I mean obviously Ross did this but that is an interesting alternative reality.

@utilitarian

2 жыл бұрын

I honeslty expected this to be the case. IUnless I missed it, the narrator highlighted when "RealLucyDrop" mentioned "FriendlyChemist" for the first time that DPR hadn't mentioned FC to RLC but no more came of it?

@zimmermb64

2 жыл бұрын

Love this…

Love that this guy had a tab open on his laptop marked "evidence against me"

This is one of the best videos I've ever watched. Can't believe stuff like this is here for free

FriendlyChemist: the drug supplier that cares for his family.

@blueeyes666

4 жыл бұрын

Richard Roberson I mean he does have friendly in his name.

@VintageToiletsRock

4 жыл бұрын

Walter White IRL

@CasaiAgicap

4 жыл бұрын

I DID THIS FOR YOU

@infiltr80r

4 жыл бұрын

Why not? He dealt LSD, far from heroin or even cocaine. They're just people, you're elevating them into something else.

@richardroberson2564

4 жыл бұрын

@@infiltr80r People endangering their families for extra cash?

So basically his legal defense boiled down to "it was just a prank bro"

@ViralSavage_

4 жыл бұрын

Lmaoo

@codrinmoisa4290

4 жыл бұрын

It was a social experiment bruh

@jaidynpeffer4242

4 жыл бұрын

logan paul walks out of the back rooms of the court IT JUST A PRANK BRO

@maybeja

4 жыл бұрын

Why you mad bruh just a prank bruh

@ducktape4502

3 жыл бұрын

Check the documentary about this. This video is kinda biased. The agents that stole the money have a bigger part in all of it. Same with the bitcoin exchange guy

this video is so good man I always come back to it after I forget it

Couldn’t stop watching this, good stuff! Kept me entertained at work for a moment.

Friendly chemist graduated from Nigerian school of princes. He’s playing chess 10 moves ahead.

@dimmacommunication

3 жыл бұрын

LOL he found 1 million he lost long time ago

@KatJ3st

3 жыл бұрын

Please send mony to Banks of Nigeria

@deadonentry

3 жыл бұрын

166$ btc

@fliora4177

3 жыл бұрын

4d chess

@marcellopodhoranyi9841

3 жыл бұрын

@@fliora4177 *5d

i was pissed off when they killed friendly chemist he was my favorite character

@peyton-cd5vd

3 жыл бұрын

SAME

@thecrimsondragon2379

3 жыл бұрын

f in the chat

@jvlinx665

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@thecrimsondragon2379

3 жыл бұрын

@@jvlinx665 damn I agree

@AP-uc7oz

3 жыл бұрын

SPOILERS

I’ve been coming to this for the past two years every time i want to sleep i just put this

@orsonwelles8339

Жыл бұрын

Same, and each time I check the comments to see how many people do the same. And there's always someone new. How does that even work idek. Tf is this sorcery.