Link: Ross Ulbricht admits he created Silk Road
The story:
For the first time, Ross Ulbricht has admitted that he invented the Silk Road.
Ulbricht's defense, which has pleaded not guilty to seven felony charges, admitted that he came up with the idea as "an economic experiment" beginning in 2009.
According to Ulbricht's defense attorney, however, he gave the site up just months after it launched in 2011 and was not ultimately responsible for growing it into the largest illegal drug market to ever exist on the Internet.
Instead, Ulbricht was allegedly the scapegoat for Silk Road's real masterminds.
It's actually not bad. He can't just LIE and deny creating it because the evidence in that regard is too damning. The e-mail addy, the forum posts, frosty, all that shit. They can't lie about that and expect to be believed with anything else. More burden of proof will lie on proving he's DPR.
It's a smart angle to take, in fact.
He has the top terrorism defense lawyer available.. & I'm sure he's a taaaaad bit smarter than us on /r/darknetmarkets