US to extradite Roger Thomas Clark, an IT Developer for the infamous Silk Road website, from Thailand.

http://rimbit.com/blogs/bitcoin-and-altcoin/394-silk-road-the-drama-continues-as-roger-clark-is-arrested-in-koh-chang#.VmG5MdG5vKA.reddit

Edit 1: Adding other relevant links:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/forgotten-silk-road-architect-variety-jones-appears-to-be-back-online

http://myplanetganja.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11022&start=690

http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/high-court-to-rule-on-us-extradition-request-for-administrator-of-silk-road-website-34250572.html

As /u/drimilr said, "TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION."

Really hoping to see what /u/gwern has to comment on this. Just wow!

Edit 2: I will continue to try and find any other information this weekend and will keep you all posted with updates =D

Edit 3: new updates.

http://www.coindesk.com/us-prosecutors-unseal-charges-against-alleged-silk-road-advisor/


Comments


[17 Points] obfsproxied:

Paging /u/gwern, what are your thoughts on this? Do you think this is legit? If it was him in the motherboard article, then it makes sense.

September 22 Article:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/forgotten-silk-road-architect-variety-jones-appears-to-be-back-online


[17 Points] Just4theDrama:

So seems all this was actually not just storytelling ? http://myplanetganja.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11022&start=690

So who knows if not that diamond part is as well what happened to him.


[11 Points] frunobulaxpoodle:

Judging from the document, the warrant was already issued in April 2015, way before he was outed by Vice / Motherboard. What took them so long then?


[10 Points] AThrowawayAsshole:

Holy shit, this guy actually exists? Now I owe somebody money.


[10 Points] Hong_Kong_Post:

Clicked on one of the links and got an instant hit of nostalgia seeing the old Silk Road logo again... Green dude on the green camel was my favorite homie for a long time :) Free Ross!!


[6 Points] MoXyMANE:

holy fuck this shit is crazy! someones gonna make a movie on this shit


[6 Points] DexOyama:

I read the post that some of this information if taken from. Im going to see if I can find the link and OP gwern doesnt want anything to do with this sub anymore


[5 Points] iliketothrooawayyfoe:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/fbi-says-suspected-silk-road-architect-variety-jones-has-been-arrested /u/obfsproxied


[4 Points] culraid:

The Irish High Court is to rule in the new year on the US extradition application in respect of the Silk Road admin 'Libertas' aka Gary Davis. Link.


[3 Points] octomarvel:

Awwww shit.

Well I dunno. This is the only part of POM's predictions that have come true but it's a big one though.

Did the FBI ever reply to him? I stopped following the planet ganja threads a month or so ago.

I'm still a fan of the VJ was nirvana train of thought. It just makes a buttload of sense. Why else would POM lay alibis to him not being VJ due to jail time if he was indeed VJ? I'ma guess coz he ain't VJ, he knows nirvana was VJ and knows nirvana tried to throw him under a bus for it to Ross. POM has stolen nirvana's shine before plus has plenty of allegiations of snitching. There's actually some very interesting stories floating around about nirvana from subcool that make me not like nirvana. Subcool is unhateable to me.

But yeah, can't wait for the court papers to leak shit like a bowel cancer patients nappy.

=)


[4 Points] xSwrvs:

Do you think these means all the stuff he was saying about the FBI agent was true?


[3 Points] bobbiggs69:

How about you add the word "alleged" to the post.


[3 Points] SockPants:

You can't really 'extradite from' somewhere right? The title should be "Thailand to extradite [...] to the US". This just makes it sound like Thailand has no say in this and the US is the king of the world.


[2 Points] darkmarke:

On the planetganja site someone ask if there was actually a wallet the $75M or however much bitcoin. Clark responded it was a wallet and wouldn't have a public key to show. Wouldn't that still be on the BTC rich list with a public key? If funds are trasferred to a wallet they have to go via the blockchain and show up right?


[2 Points] bobbiggs69:

I wondered why he stopped talking on MyPlanetGanja.


[2 Points] obfsproxied:

New updates. See main post.


[2 Points] None:

Read the unsealed indictment and Ross had a copy of his passport on his laptop. Maybe this was known but I never recall seeing it.

So they knew who he was for long time. Explains the PG posting he was waiting for them.

Should be interesting regardless.


[1 Points] None:

He begged for them to come for him. WHO really cares? We are 29 markets passed SR1. The only hopes are that they extradite him and Ross can use it and the corrupted agents for appealing his life sentence.


[1 Points] RuffledFeathers411:

Ko Chang? The island?


[1 Points] intheevent50:

Most interesting part of criminal complaint to me is item number 19. where it talks about Ross sending payments of "united states currency" to VJ.

Do you think this was sent as usd wire transfers? If it was in bitcoin, then it would mean VJ had a shitload of bitcoin at some point:

Maybe someone was threatening to kill VJ and sending people after him because they suspected he might be in possession of ~10k btc?


[0 Points] None:

His laptop hard drive wasn't encrypted???? The main guy? No wonder they got caught, they were amateurs.