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Goodfellas meets The Social Network by way of Ayn Rand

October 3, 2018 by Jake 1 Comment

Privilege is a helluva drug. Apparently, it was the only thing you couldn’t buy on the Silk Road. I listened to most of this book on audio. During one stretch of long driving, my wife was with me and only heard part of it. It was the part in which FBI agents who had just busted a Silk Road associate took his computer and transferred the associate’s bitcoins into private offshore accounts they could access. As my wife started laughing, I told her “Just about […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: American Kingpin, Nick Bilton, Ross Ulbricht, The Silk Road

Jake's CBR10 Review No:29 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: American Kingpin, Nick Bilton, Ross Ulbricht, The Silk Road ·
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