Ross Ulbricht never thought he'd get caught. *Corrections: Ulbricht attended the University of Texas at Dallas, not Austin. He was born on March 27, not March 17. Check out the book American Kingpin by Nick Bilton http://www.americankingpin.com/ Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://twitter.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: null Thank you to our Patrons, including Igli Laci, Ronil Patel, Austin Grant, Tom Eng, Neo Ge, Will Lathrop Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Thumbnail source: Ross Ulbricht photo sourced from freeross.org Sources: 0:04 Eric E Castro from San Francisco, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 0:08 Ross Ulbricht image: freeross.org 0:20 Original Silk Road map: Kelvin Case, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons (edited by Newsthink) 1:45 Ludwig von Mises Institute, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ via Wikimedia Commons 1:50 Mitt Romney image: Chris Devers, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 3:25 Ross Ulbricht image: freeross.org 4:47 Jared Der-Yeghiayan image: LinkedIn 5:48 Mobilus In Mobili, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons 6:37 Ross Ulbricht with sister image: freeross.org 6:42 Variety Jones photo courtesy of: Eileen Ormsby https://eileenormsby.com/2018/06/16/variety-jones-in-the-usa/ 7:00 Ross Ulbricht laptop courtesy of the FBI 9:00 Carl Force “Nob” photo shown in court during Ulbricht’s trial 9:47 Curtis Clark Green image: Tonya Heaps Green | Facebook 11:20 Chris Tarbell image: LinkedIn 12:13 Government exhibit 14:13 Government exhibit 16:56 Eric E Castro from San Francisco, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 22:03 Variety Jones image courtesy of Eileen Ormsby https://eileenormsby.com/2018/06/16/variety-jones-in-the-usa/