Silk Road

Ross Ulbricht built an anonymous marketplace on the dark web where you could buy anything with Bitcoin. Silk Road proved that cryptocurrency had real utility — even if that utility was illegal. Trustless follows the rise and fall of the internet’s most infamous marketplace: the libertarian manifesto that launched it, the FBI investigation that hunted it, and the laptop seizure in a San Francisco library that ended it. Silk Road made Bitcoin dangerous. It also made it real.