Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
As an aside, since this is HN, I thought some portion of the audience here might be interested to know that the code for the Silk Road marketplace appears to have been in PHP, using CodeIgniter as the framework:<p><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/01/heres-secret-silk-road-journal-laptop-ross-ulbricht/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/2015/01/heres-secret-silk-road-journal-...</a><p>"In any case, I decided to rewrite the site in an mvc framework as suggested by my benevolent hacker adviser. So, while still manually processing transactions and responding to a bigger and bigger message load, I learned to use codeigniter and began rewriting the site."