and in light of these new charges against these two federal agents these two federal agents were spearheading the silk road task force for the dea and secret service in baltimore. and they were corrupt allegedly and they were allegedly creating fictitious user names and stealing money and blackmailing dread pirate roberts and instigating murder for hire. there was a lot of corruption coming to light and makes it far more difficult to understand whether ross is or in fact not guilty. i think more safer thing to say is did ross get a fair trial? does he get a fair investigation? it s hard to say if he did in light of these charges. what is it with the dark web now or silk road and the idea that there is more than one dread pirate roberts? well the dread pirate roberts was a fictitious user name. there was a lot of speculation there was more than one even at that time that many different people were using dread pirate roberts account and it was really kind of a sort of a front
the media. nothing has been proven as all. i don t know what s happened to the perception of innocence but it is a constitutional right that we are npt until proven guilty. joining me now, alex winter, the director of deep web, the untold story of bit coin and silk road. there are so many interesting parts with your documentary but i want to start with explaining to everybody what is silk road and how it s connected to the internet finances of bit coin. well the silk road was an online marketplace that appeared in an area of the internet called the dark net, which is part of the deep web, unindexed section of the internet. not one you can get to with the web browser you need special operations and services to gets into this hidden corner of the internet. it appeared several years ago and seized by the feds and ross ul brekt was arrested as being
the mastermind. he claimed to not be and the trial ended recently in new york and he was found guilty on all seven counts of creating and running this online drug marketplace. but we heard from his mother who claims that he is innocent. that s right. now we ve got these arrests from the fed side of things does that layny credibility to to his innocence? i was at this trial in new york and it s a tricky trial because it involves bit coin a crypto currency used on the silk road a digital form of currency, unregulated and not connected to regular currency. it was very difficult to navigate this case if you re dealing with anonymous users and people using fictitious names. there s been a lot of claims that it s difficult to know if ross actually was who they were claiming him to be.