Movie Review: Silk Road Gives a Look into the Dark Web and Cryptos
The film is based on “Dead End on Silk Road,” a magazine article from Rolling Stone in 2014.
Ross Ulbricht was the founder of Silk Road, the notorious “dark web” marketplace, prior to his arrest in 2013. Convicted of crimes that included money laundering, computer hacking and conspiracy to traffic fraudulent identity documents, Ulbricht has been sentenced to decades in prison. He was also accused by prosecutors of murder-for-hire, but never convicted on any of those charges, giving him an unusually long sentence for someone not convicted of anything violent.