FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk Road founder
If Ross Ulbricht is really the guy who ran this site, why in the world was he doing his work from San Francisco?  His alleged job was the pinnacle of "work anywhere".  He took so many precautions to keep his identity secret that he must've known that his activities would at some point gather focused attention from the authorities.<p>Living in San Francisco allowed the feds to pick them up on their lunch hour.  Even just hopping the border to Mexico would've required them to get international cooperation and extradite him.<p>He'd likely be a free man if he were in Croatia or Kazakhstan.