Silk Road Trial: Defense Says Mt. Gox CEO Is the Real Drug Lord
Sam Biddle · 01/15/15 04:50PM
Since his arrest in 2013, Ross Ulbricht has remained the chief suspect behind the Silk Road, a sweeping and sophisticated online drug market. But today in court, his defense dropped a shocker: they claimed the market's actual kingpin was Mark Karpeles, who is infamous for running the world's biggest bitcoin operation into the ground before he turned 29.