What happend to Silkroad 2.0's Blake Benthall, AKA "Defcon"?

We all know he messed up pretty bad, but since his arrest, there has been no reports, no update. nothing. When Ross was arrested there was an article about him every week or so, and even after his sentencing, we still get articles in the news here and there. Why the silence regarding Blake? shouldn't he be facing similar attention regarding his statut as the Silkroad 2.0 captain?

my own opinion is that he's fully cooperating with the authorities, probably helping set-up honeypots or similar projects....


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[11 Points] AndThenHeSays4:

He's teaching LE across the country all about the Buttcoins and the Onion webs and the PGP encryption skillz. Methodically sucking off every supervising screw he can find in hopes of getting a few months shaved off his 25-30 year sentence he's about to get thrown in his face. Meanwhile, his ugly wifey is boning him in hopes of carrying his troll/ogre halfling spawn and raise said child in a proper evangelical sister-wives home type arrangement. This nigga fucked.


[12 Points] None:

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[5 Points] None:

Whatever happened he is not gettng life but getting married. Month ago people had thread here of him and future wife. Her facebook.

I think /u/gwern said all court records are sealed.


[3 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

DPR2 cracked under the pressure, DDOS'd other markets whilst simultaneously offering around his "marketplace hardening services" and ran off. I think Defcon was the SR2 janitor before being promoted.

Defcon was clearly telling lies about the SR2 escrow. It was one big wallet, yet he claimed that 56% (or some arbitrary figure) of vendors had their escrow stolen. If all the escrows were pooled, how did he decide who the victims were?

In actual fact, ALL the vendors were the unlucky 56%. The "transaction malleability" issue was never patched, and quietly forgotten about. Like your teacher asking how your family are coping with the loss of your grandmother. "My grandmother? What are...oh, my GRANDMOTHER? Yes, very sad business" when you forgot that you bunked off to "attend her funeral".

When he was no longer in a prison facility, he was probably helping the feds to go through the SR2.0 server database. Explaining how shipping details were erased, working out which customers bought dealer quantitys of drugs, and helping them to arrest as many of his theft victims as possible.

Maybe he's grown a proper beard now.

For me, the big mystery is DPR2. He seems to have cracked up around the same time vendor Hiniguel did, having a really personal-sounding arguement with the SR2 admins on the SilkRoad forum when the escrow went walkies.

I'm convinced Hiniguel was "VarietyJones". Several people have speculated that VarietyJones was DPR2.

One of my semi-regular customers, based in West London, claims to have helped Hiniguel to move house. He said the same to Vendor Hank recently.

Hank can't stand Hiniguel. I'm sure there is still a thread on the agora forums, where theShadowman (a later Hiniguel incarnation) was asking me to recommend his meth when mine is sold out, like I do with Hank's. "Its every bit as good as Hank's".

That's because he was secretly (he thought) buying his meth off Hank, and from me.


[2 Points] PurpleBeamz:

I recently read he got engaged, probably working with the feds


[1 Points] Axaq:

Silently released and got married to his bible bashing fiancé.

There's no public information on it that I am aware of but I have no idea what information he would have to hand over for a plea deal, it would have to be big to walk away free the way he has.


[1 Points] unitedstatesiscancer:

Kitten? He is purring in the lap of his new handlers


[1 Points] None:

His Facebook is completely private now; and his Twitter has been deleted. Methinks he's out of prison, probably working with the Feds currently in the same way that Sabu of Lulzsec did after he got arrested. Probably helping the Feds squeal on the hundreds of vendors that used the site.