The Dark Side Of The Silk Road

Fair warning. Tons of spoilers in the comments. Follow up video: https://youtu.be/1VZkiQUzITU

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

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

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

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

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.

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

It’s also funny that Ross didn’t realize he was getting scammed when my first guess was that all those accounts were the same person. The whole story is so zany. The fact that he thought a Hell’s angel would make an account on his site because a middleman that owed them money told them to just shows how out of touch he was…

Great video

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 😂

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.

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

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

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.