Matt Mayberry@mattmayberry · Hacking User Behavior @ UseDopamine.com
Hi Nick. I love your pieces in Vanity Fair. Did you get any indication that Ross had an endgame for the Silk Road? Was their a certain amount of money he wanted to bank or achievement he wanted to reach? With all the money he had made, why keep running it?
@mattmayberry I don't think it was ever about the money for him. He was caught with tens of millions of dollars in Bitcoin on his laptop and thumb-drives, and yet he was living in a 1,200-a-month apartment, was wearing the same clothes his girlfriend had bought him 5 years earlier in college and had $2 — yes, two dollars — in cash in his pocket. From all of …See more
