EPISODE · Sep 11, 2026 · 2H 44M
The Untold Story of Silk Road Founder's Arrest.
from The Future of Money
With Jared Der-Yeghiayan, Director of Investigations at OKX and the former Homeland Security special agent who led the investigation that brought down the Silk Road. In this episode, we discuss: • How one pill in the letter mail opened the Silk Road investigation • Tracing Bitcoin transactions years before blockchain analytics tools existed • What it took to go undercover as a Silk Road administrator • How interagency rivalry almost collapsed the case • Why the defense argument that Silk Road was a victimless crime did not hold • The Ross Ulbricht pardon, and how the lead investigator responded to it • What the case set in motion for crypto compliance and investigations today
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