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0:00The guy in the picture in front of you
0:01is a hacker. He managed to hack the
0:02most dangerous site on the dark web.
0:04And stole $ 3 billion from it. In a way
0:06you could never expect. Because of this
0:08hacker's prowess, the site owner
0:09contacted him. And made him an offer,
0:11just to know how he hacked the site.
0:13But the hacker rejected his offer.
0:15Despite everything I've told you about
0:17him, he is considered the stupidest
0:18hacker in the world. And that is for
0:20many reasons. When you know them, you
0:22won't believe they came from this
0:23hacker. Who made dark web gangs and the
0:25owner of the most dangerous site in the
0:27world taste defeat. The story I'm going
0:29to tell you today, you'll see for the
0:30first time the fiercest and most
0:32dangerous criminals in the world as
0:34victims. Peace be upon you, I am Islam,
0:38and this is a new story. If you don't
0:40know me, I tell strange stories and
0:41mysterious topics. In our story today,
0:43we will dive into the depths of the
0:44dark web and hear the story of the
0:46hacker nicknamed the Bitcoin Whale. And
0:48his story with the Silk Road site found
0:49on the dark web. And the founder of the
0:51site. And how his story ended because
0:53of a small, trivial mistake he made of
0:55his own free will. And along our way,
0:57we will also know the secrets of dark
0:58web sites. And how buying and selling
1:00takes place there. And how. The package
1:01reaches the person who ordered it. But
1:03before we start with anything, I'd like
1:05you to go down now and hit like.
1:06Because firstly, it contributes to
1:07improving my psychological state.
1:09Secondly, it contributes to the spread
1:10of the video. When you hit like, you
1:11are telling the platform to show this
1:13video to more people. We've been doing
1:15the 500 likes challenge for three
1:16videos now. But I have hope in God,
1:18then in you, that we will reach this
1:20number. And now I can tell you to sit
1:22in a quiet place away from people. And
1:24in the name of God, let's begin. The
1:30first thing we will get to know is the
1:33site where we will spend most of the
1:35video's time, the Silk Road site. The
1:37site appeared on the dark web in 2011,
1:39and the founder of the site is a hacker
1:41named Ross Ulbricht. The name of the
1:43site is taken from the historical Silk
1:44Road. This was a road that existed in
1:471400 BC. It connected all the
1:48continents of the world together. And
1:50it also passed through China and India,
1:52until it reached the depths of Europe.
1:53The founder of the site, Ross Ulbricht,
1:55chose this specific name for several
1:57very smart reasons. The historical Silk
1:59Road that Ross quoted from. His site's
2:01name was a place where all the world's
2:03cultures gathered. And began to
2:05exchange the goods they had. Like
2:07Chinese silk, Indian spices, and
2:09precious stones. And this was done with
2:11total freedom. Without international
2:13laws or restrictions. And this is
2:14exactly what Ross was dreaming of. He
2:16dreamed of designing a website. Where
2:17people could sell and buy everything
2:19they wanted. Because he had this
2:20strange idea in his mind. That
2:22governments have no right at all. To
2:23control what a person buys and what
2:25they don't buy. According to his words,
2:27everyone has the right to buy anything.
2:29Whatever it is, whether forbidden or
2:30strange. Ross was running the Silk Road
2:32site under a pseudonym. He was. Calling
2:34himself the Dread Pirate Roberts. And
2:36the products offered on the Silk Road,
2:38or the Amazon of criminals as they call
2:40it. 70%of them are drugs. of them. the
2:42well-known, and the ones still new and
2:44being tested. As for the other 30%,
2:45they are distributed across several
2:47parts. For instance, there is a section
2:49for organ trafficking. Literally, you
2:51can buy any organ from this site. And
2:53another section that sells
2:54vulnerabilities for the most famous
2:55sites and companies in. the world;
2:57whoever has this vulnerability can
2:59easily take down any company or site.
3:01This is the department the hacker was
3:02working in. The one we will talk about,
3:04and there is another part specialized
3:06in files. But not just any files. These
3:08are complete identities of real stolen
3:10persons. Meaning it is a full file. It
3:12has the person's name, age, nationality
3:14, and address. And everything, even the
3:16medical record is there. This file is
3:18sold to anyone who wants to enter any
3:20country, cause trouble, and leave. To
3:23enter under a pseudonym with a fake
3:25file, although all sites. on the dark
3:27web allow selling anything, whatever it
3:29may be. Ross Ulbricht's Silk Road site
3:31had restrictions on some products. Such
3:34as selling child pornography and hiring
3:36hitmen and killers. So, Islam, how does
3:38the customer buy things from this site?
3:40And how does the stuff even reach them?
3:41I will tell you how. First of all,
3:43paying with a Visa or bank account is
3:45strictly prohibited. All payments are
3:47in Bitcoin only. The person entering to
3:49buy loads their Bitcoin wallet on their
3:52account. After that, they go in to look
3:54for what they want. The strange thing
3:56is that the site has a seller rating
3:57with stars, just like Amazon, and under
3:59every product, there are comments from
4:01people who bought before you, to ensure
4:02the quality of the product and trust
4:04the seller. After the customer buys
4:06what they want, they pay the money to
4:08an escrow account. And keep in mind,
4:10this escrow account has a very
4:11important role we will learn about
4:12later. After the customer receives the
4:14goods sent to their mail and ensures
4:16everything is fine and there are no
4:18problems, they go to the Silk Road site
4:20on the dark web and confirm receipt.
4:22Then the escrow account transfers the
4:24money to the seller after deducting its
4:25commission. And if the customer
4:27complains that the goods received are
4:29not what they ordered, or they were
4:31scammed, the escrow account returns
4:32their money and rates the seller they
4:34bought from with one star. This makes
4:36the product they listed not appear at
4:38the top of the store's lists. And this
4:40way, they won't be able to sell. The
4:42system that Ross created literally made
4:44criminals compete with each other to
4:46provide the highest quality. To save
4:48you the comment that is written every
4:50time I talk about the dark web:
4:52accessing the dark web, and
4:54specifically the Silk Road site, is
4:56very difficult and not safe at all for
4:58any ordinary person like you and me.
5:00The first thing you obviously need to
5:02enter is a browser other than the ones
5:04we use, and a computer that has no
5:06files identifying you. And after doing
5:09all this and more, the chance of you
5:11being hacked by the hackers on the dark
5:13web is 85%. And if you're lucky enough
5:17to pass, or they let you pass for some
5:19reason, every video you watch or
5:21product displayed is a trap set for you
5:23. Once you click on it, that's your
5:26implicit consent for them to hack all
5:28your personal files, photos, emails,
5:30and the phones of everyone you know.
5:33And after this hack happens, a horrific
5:35blackmail campaign begins. The hackers
5:37start contacting you and demanding
5:39large sums of money. And if you refuse,
5:41they can easily put your information
5:42and your file up for sale on the dark
5:44web. You might wake up to find yourself
5:46accused of a crime you didn't commit
5:48and know nothing about. Or, your face
5:49—or the face of someone you love—
5:51could be put on very obscene videos and
5:53spread across the internet. Some people
5:55think entering the dark web is an
5:57adventure, but it's more like throwing
5:59yourself off a 50-story building,
6:01thinking a mattress on the ground will
6:04save you. That is exactly what a person
6:05who doesn't understand enters the dark
6:07web like. They think the hidden browser
6:08they’re using masks their identity.
6:10But in reality, if you fall into the
6:12hands of hackers there, no one will be
6:14able to save you from them. Because all
6:16the criminals and hackers on the dark
6:18web are hidden from the FBI, and they
6:20can't catch or track them down. So if
6:22one of them blackmails you and you go
6:24to the police, they'll just tell you, "
6:25Sorry, we'll deal with him when we
6:26catch him." So be careful, my dear
6:28friend, because this is not a game. In
6:322017, a billionaire named Jimmy Zhong
6:35appeared. One of the wealthy, whose
6:37fortune exceeded 16 million dollars,
6:39according to Jimmy Zhong himself. And
6:41he used to tell people that this wealth
6:43came from Bitcoin trading. But what he
6:45didn't tell people was that his wealth
6:47actually exceeded 3 billion dollars,
6:50and that he was wanted by all the dark
6:52web gangs. Before I tell you the
6:54disaster he caused on the dark web, let
6:55me first introduce you to his character
6:57. Jimmy Zhong was born on March 13,
6:591990, in the American state of Georgia.
7:02His father and mother were of Chinese
7:04descent. Meaning they were Chinese
7:05immigrants living in America. The
7:07neighborhood where Jimmy lived was all
7:09Germans and naturalized Europeans. When
7:11Jimmy was young, he hated school very
7:13much. Because all the children used to
7:15bully him. Firstly, because he was the
7:17only Chinese child in the school.
7:18Secondly, because he was morbidly obese
7:20. So he was subjected to horrific
7:22bullying at school, whether verbal or
7:24physical. When he reached 12 years old,
7:27he asked his parents if he could
7:29transfer schools. But his parents
7:31refused because their financial
7:32situation was bad. And at that same age
7:35, his parents separated. He ended up
7:36staying with his mother. And his mother
7:38let him drop out of school. Because she
7:39couldn't handle the coming problems,
7:41nor could she protect him from the
7:43bullying. So from her point of view,
7:44keeping him at home was the most
7:46appropriate solution. At that time,
7:47Jimmy asked his mother to buy him a
7:49computer so he could learn from home
7:50since he wouldn't be going to school.
7:52And his mother actually got him the
7:53computer. But Jimmy wasn't studying on
7:55it; he was playing games. A year after
7:56his parents separated, something
7:58happened that would greatly change
7:59Jimmy's life as a hacker. In 2003, the
8:01neighbors reported his mother to the
8:03police. They said she was keeping him
8:05at home and not sending him to school.
8:06And that she had submitted forged
8:08documents to the school. She said Jimmy
8:09would transfer to another school, but
8:11he didn't transfer and stayed home for
8:13a while. The police officers actually
8:15came and arrested the mother. And the
8:17American police did what they love most
8:19; they made her pay a very large fine.
8:22A committee tested Jimmy. After that,
8:24they sent him back to school, but not
8:27his old school. They put him in a
8:29special experimental institute. This
8:30institute combined traditional
8:32education with technological education.
8:33This is because when they tested Jimmy,
8:35they discovered he was a computer
8:37genius. Anyway, when Jimmy turned 18,
8:39he entered the programming college at
8:40the University of Georgia. From his
8:42first two years in college, he started
8:44working to support himself. He was
8:45designing advertisements and images.
8:47Until one day, he was sitting with one
8:48of his college classmates. This friend
8:50told him that he works at a large
8:51company. This company asks him from
8:53time to time to try and penetrate its
8:55security system. And if he succeeds, he
8:56gives them the vulnerability he used to
8:58break into the system. Then the company
9:00gives this report to the relevant team
9:02to patch the vulnerability. And he gets
9:04paid a good amount for all this work.
9:06But his friend told him that he
9:07recently discovered hackers on the Dark
9:10Web doing the same work, but earning 10
9:12times more. After Jimmy heard this, he
9:14ran to his computer and opened the Dark
9:16Web. But what happened to him the
9:18moment he opened the Dark Web was
9:19strange and unexpected. As soon as
9:21Jimmy entered the Dark Web, the device
9:23he was using was immediately hacked.
9:25And it didn't happen just once; it
9:27happened more than once until he
9:28understood and was able to protect
9:30himself well. When he went in and
9:32started browsing, he discovered that
9:34all the work on the sites was illegal.
9:36Hacking banks, bank accounts, websites,
9:38and taking down companies—it was all
9:40crimes and not what. Jimmy had come for
9:42. But in the end, he found no other
9:44solution but to work. After a certain
9:46period, he was able to prove himself as
9:48a professional hacker in a specific
9:49type of vulnerability. Jimmy
9:51specialized in website vulnerabilities,
9:53because he saw that hackers
9:54specializing in this type were very few
9:57on the Silk Road site, which, by the
9:59way, he started working on. This
10:01vulnerability trade was divided into
10:02two types. The first type was for the
10:04company or site owner to request the
10:06hacker to hack their company or site,
10:08and if he succeeded, he would give the
10:10owner the vulnerability he used. The
10:12second method was for the hacker
10:14himself, without anyone asking, to
10:16choose a company and start hacking it.
10:18And if he discovered a security flaw in
10:19their system, he would contact them and
10:21demand money in exchange for handing
10:23over the vulnerability. He might also
10:24choose not to contact that company, and
10:26instead offer the vulnerability he
10:28found to the Silk Road site or any
10:30other site. After a while, Jimmy became
10:32very famous in this field and started
10:33getting a lot of work. We now reach the
10:35year 2011; at that time, Bitcoin
10:37started to emerge, but its value was
10:39very low against the dollar. A thousand
10:41Bitcoins were worth one dollar. Even
10:43though its value was low, as I told you
10:45, Jimmy wouldn't accept payment in
10:47anything but Bitcoin. He probably knew
10:49that its price would go up in the
10:50future. Over a period of time, Jimmy
10:52managed to collect $ 25,000 from his
10:55work on the Silk Road site, in addition
10:57to thousands of Bitcoins. After
10:59collecting this amount, he withdrew all
11:01the dollars in his wallet and left the
11:03Bitcoin. He left 40,000 Bitcoins in the
11:06wallet. He closed his account on the
11:08site. And he disappeared from the dark
11:09web for a year. Some sources say that
11:11after he left his work on the dark web,
11:13he worked in a restaurant until what
11:15happened in 2011, and that, my friend,
11:17is the point where everything starts.
11:21The price of Bitcoin rose to $ 25 per
11:23coin; naturally, as soon as Jimmy heard
11:26this news, he rushed to his computer
11:28and opened the Silk Road site. But when
11:30he opened the site, he was shocked.
11:32Because he found his account had been
11:34hacked, and everything in it was stolen
11:35. And the account itself was deleted.
11:37Jimmy tried to recover the account.
11:38More than once, but he failed, of
11:40course, and after many failed attempts,
11:42he said, "Fine, I will go back to work
11:44and collect others." Jimmy returned to
11:46work on the Silk Road site. On
11:47electronic vulnerabilities, and because
11:49he was an old hand. Already experienced
11:50and seasoned in the field. He became
11:52famous in a short time. And he got a
11:53lot of work. Until one day, a client
11:55reached out to Jimmy. And asked him for
11:57a favor that would change his life 180
11:59degrees. This client approached Jimmy
12:02and asked him to hack the Silk Road
12:04site. He came asking him to hack the
12:07most dangerous site on the dark web.
12:09And this is something nearly impossible
12:10. Because the site is secured in an
12:12ingenious way. And there are also
12:14hackers and gangs protecting it. So the
12:15matter is nearly impossible. The
12:17strange irony is that they were both
12:19talking inside the site. Jimmy, of
12:20course, refused the offer completely.
12:21And said to the man, "Man, stop being
12:23crazy." But at the same time, you could
12:24say he left the idea in the back of his
12:26mind. And after a while, he went back
12:27to thinking about it again. He said to
12:29himself that if he actually succeeded
12:30in hacking this site, he would be the
12:32richest person. In the world. And that
12:34is why he started studying the idea,
12:35but from afar. He logged into the Silk
12:37Road site using a fake email. Different
12:39from the email he uses for work. And
12:41started looking for vulnerabilities in
12:43the site. But he failed, of course.
12:45This is because he was searching in
12:46places where any hacker would be
12:48expected to look for vulnerabilities.
12:50And that is what the site owner had
12:51accounted for. Which is Ross Ulbricht,
12:53while he was designing the site. He had
12:55plugged all the holes that any hacker
12:57could use to get in, in some places.
12:59But there were other places he hadn't
13:01noticed. Jimmy didn't give up either.
13:03He started searching until he found
13:05what he was looking for. In the last
13:07place anyone would ever imagine. The
13:09money deposit and withdrawal section. A
13:11place no one would think could have a
13:13bug due to its importance. Imagine a
13:16website. On the dark web that's hard to
13:17access. And hacking it is almost
13:19impossible. The deposit and withdrawal
13:21button there would glitch. The bug was
13:23that. If you wanted to put 100 Bitcoins
13:25in your account. And clicked the
13:27deposit button six times. Before the
13:29page loaded, the 100 Bitcoins would
13:31become 200. Coins. And if you wanted to
13:33withdraw 100 coins, and clicked the
13:35withdraw button twice, the 100 coins.
13:37Would become 200, and the difference
13:40would be covered by the site. Imagine
13:42the site has been running for years.
13:43And no one noticed this bug except for
13:45Jimmy. Now pay close attention to
13:47what's coming next. Because I'll tell
13:48you how Jimmy managed to exploit this
13:50bug. Without anyone suspecting him. And
13:52how he was able to withdraw money from
13:54them. And steal from them without them
13:55noticing a thing. Jimmy was. Well aware
13:57that if he exploited this bug now and
14:00withdrew large amounts, in a few days,
14:02he’d be the star of a red room live
14:04stream. He had to steal from them
14:05without them noticing. He started
14:07thinking until he came up with a trick.
14:09A genius one; he created another
14:10account besides his main one used for
14:13hacking services. And he put a certain
14:15amount in that account, let's say 100
14:17Bitcoins. He then used his fake account
14:18to request a hacking service from his
14:20main account. While depositing the 100
14:22Bitcoins, he exploited the bug. He
14:24clicked the deposit button six times
14:26before the page loaded. So the 100
14:28Bitcoins he deposited became 200 coins.
14:30After that, with his fake account, he
14:32requested a hacking service from his
14:33main account. And he paid 200 Bitcoins
14:35for that service to his second account.
14:37As he paid, he clicked the pay button
14:40twice. Before the page loaded, the 200
14:42Bitcoins became 400 coins. Meaning,
14:44this way, he got back the 100 coins he
14:46originally loaded to his fake account.
14:48And he got an extra 300 coins on top of
14:50that. And you can imagine, if a
14:52person’s money doubles just by
14:54clicking a mouse. How many times could
14:57he do this? Jimmy would do this once or
15:00twice a day. And none of the site's
15:02administrators noticed. Because, man,
15:04the Silk Road site handles dozens of
15:06deals worth millions of dollars daily.
15:09So they wouldn't notice if 20 or 30,000
15:11dollars were stolen from them. But
15:13after months, they started feeling
15:14something was wrong. Bitcoin amounts
15:17were going missing. They didn't know
15:18where they were going. Mind you, they
15:20still don't know yet. But they feel
15:22something is wrong. That's why they
15:23posted an announcement on the site.
15:25They said anyone who finds a bug in the
15:28site would get a reward of 100,000
15:30Bitcoins. They didn't say at all that
15:32there's a traitor among us stealing
15:33from the site that feeds us. And we
15:35don't just jump to conclusions. They
15:36are smarter than that. The hackers
15:37started searching for the
15:38vulnerabilities on the site. But they
15:40didn't find anything. Because they were
15:41searching in the same way Jimmy was
15:43searching initially. They were looking
15:45in difficult and unexpected places.
15:46Places impossible for anyone to reach.
15:48And all that is why they didn't find
15:49anything. Can you imagine, star, that
15:51this site had five vulnerabilities? And
15:53they were all located in the wallet.
15:54The hackers in the competition couldn't
15:56identify even one of them. I'm writing
15:58this story shocked at how the
16:00reputation of the dark web was trashed.
16:02The important thing is that Jimmy felt
16:03this competition was a trap. And that
16:05if he participated in this contest and
16:06told them where the bug was to get the
16:08prize, they'd know he was the one
16:10robbing them. And if they knew him,
16:11they would track him down. And if they
16:12reached him, they'd catch him and put
16:14him on the site as a sticker to make
16:15him an example. That's why he acted as
16:17if he hadn't even seen the ad. After
16:19what happened, Jimmy decided this would
16:21be his last time on the dark web. And
16:23focus with me, because what's coming is
16:24all about spending and living the good
16:26life. How much had Jimmy stolen from
16:28the dark web site? 50,000 Bitcoin. All
16:31distributed across hard drives and
16:33flash drives. What is this, Islam? Hold
16:34on a second. How is money kept on a
16:36hard disk? I'll tell you how. These
16:38hard drives are called cold wallets.
16:40Bitcoin currency is just codes. Whoever
16:43holds these codes holds the Bitcoin.
16:45The cold wallet method was the perfect
16:48way. If you don't want to keep your
16:49Bitcoin on websites. And that is
16:51exactly what Jimmy did. He took the
16:53fractions and kept the 50,000 on hard
16:54drives. And after that, he hid them.
16:56And keep the subject of these hard
16:57drives in mind, because we'll come back
16:59to it later. After that, he sold
17:01fractions of the 50,000 Bitcoin and
17:03began to live his life. The first thing
17:05he did was buy a large, luxurious house
17:06in Georgia. And after that, he met new
17:09friends. And he started going out with
17:10them every day and spending on them.
17:12Imagine a group of 40 people. Jimmy was
17:14feeding them, giving them drinks, and
17:16taking them on trips on his own dime.
17:17And everything, of course, was outside
17:20the USA and under fake names. And even
17:22when he went to places inside the US,
17:25he chose places with secret service.
17:28Booking such places is very expensive.
17:30But they completely hide the identity
17:32of those who book there. And these
17:33places operate legally in America. They
17:35weren't doing anything illegal. The
17:37first mistake Jimmy committed, and
17:38literally a mistake of extreme
17:40stupidity, was that he applied to
17:42travel to the South Pole. And for your
17:44information, this is the second most
17:45expensive trip in the world after space
17:47travel. So, Islam, why was Jimmy wrong
17:48when he submitted this request? Because
17:50anyone who applies for this request,
17:52the American government investigates
17:54their file thoroughly. And they find
17:55out everything about them to finally
17:57decide whether they will approve the
17:58request or not. And what makes you even
18:00crazier is that Jimmy knew all of this.
18:02I mean, you're a thief with piles of
18:04money, no one knows where you got it
18:05from, and things are going perfectly
18:07for you. Everything is great and no one
18:09suspected you, yet you go and apply for
18:10a trip like this. I mean, you're a
18:11thief and an idiot. Just be a thief.
18:13Sorry to interrupt you, Islam, but I
18:15don't believe you. Why is that, my
18:16friend? Because how was the guy
18:18spending all that money with no source
18:20of income? Wait, did no one ask him
18:21where he was getting that money from?
18:23Fair point. But who told you he didn't
18:25have a source of income? Officially,
18:26and in the eyes of the government,
18:28Jimmy had set up three companies. One
18:30in real estate, one in programming, and
18:31one in digital currencies. Granted, all
18:33these companies were fake, and their
18:34paperwork was forged. But the goal was
18:36to provide a cover for the expenses he
18:38was racking up. He was also investing
18:39with other companies in digital
18:41currencies and gold. These investments
18:43grew his wealth by 40%, and that money.
18:46Obviously, that made him travel more
18:48and spend more. Anyway, let's leave
18:49Jimmy to blow his money as he pleases.
18:51And go back to the dark side, and look
18:53at the Silk Road site. And see what
18:55they did after their contest failed.
18:57The site owners contacted the biggest
18:59hackers on the dark web. And offered
19:01them 15,000 Bitcoin. They told them, "
19:03We don't want to know what the
19:05vulnerability is.""We want to know the
19:06account that was exploiting it.""We
19:08don't want to know how we were being
19:10robbed.""We want to know the thief, we
19:12want to know who was stealing from us."
19:14I mean, what good does it do me to know
19:16if the thief came in through the window
19:17or the balcony? I want to know who the
19:19thief is. The hackers worked for
19:20exactly 10 days. Until they managed to
19:23track down two accounts. There were
19:25suspicious transactions between them,
19:26and financial operations that didn't
19:28add up. They dug deeper until they
19:30realized those two accounts belonged to
19:32one person. And that person was Jimmy
19:34Zhong. They caught him. Obviously, in
19:38that way. Jimmy is definitely done for
19:41now. But the site owner, Ross Ulbricht,
19:43took it easy at first. He contacted him
19:45and tried to reason with him. But Jimmy
19:47cut off communication and fled to the
19:50Bahamas. Imagine someone who founded
19:51the most dangerous site on the dark web
19:53. And has an army of killers and thugs
19:55at his command. A small-time thief came
19:57and robbed him. He found out and tried
19:58to settle things with the thief calmly.
20:00But the thief refused to negotiate.
20:02What could happen to that thief after
20:03Jimmy shut him out? Ross told his men,
20:06"Listen, I want you to wipe him off the
20:07face of the earth." What happened to
20:09Jimmy after that? Nothing at all.
20:11Because a few days later, Ross Ulbricht
20:13was arrested, the founder of the Silk
20:16Road and the link between the biggest
20:18dark web gangs. And that, of course, is
20:20a much bigger disaster than what Jimmy
20:22did. At the time of Ross's arrest, the
20:25Silk Road site had 180,000 Bitcoin.
20:27Knowing that it was supposed to have
20:30650,000. This huge difference means
20:32that many people suddenly withdrew
20:34their money from the site. Sources say
20:36there were government entities in the
20:38country that were investing in the site
20:40. And as soon as they learned there was
20:42a secret operation underway to arrest
20:43Ross Ulbricht, they withdrew all their
20:45funds. Although Jimmy escaped Ross
20:47Ulbricht and his gang, he won't be
20:49escaping the trouble that's coming his
20:51way. After the site collapsed, 60,000
20:53Bitcoins remained, owned by individuals
20:56. As for the rest of the 650,000, they
20:58belonged to political entities in the
21:00state. Jimmy. Owned 50,000 of those
21:03600,000. Can you imagine the trouble
21:06he's in? Where did you get this, my
21:07dear friend? You were just a simple
21:09hacker on the site. It's impossible to
21:11gather that amount at that time. Jimmy
21:13was acting foolish, going from one
21:14party to another and country to country
21:16. Spending and splashing cash, not
21:17caring about a thing. He told himself,
21:19"It's fine, they caught the site owner
21:21who wanted me dead." And if anyone asks
21:23, "Where did you get this?" I'll show
21:24them the papers proving I own three
21:26companies. Even though Jimmy was a
21:28master of everything related to
21:30programming or hacking, he was
21:32completely clueless legally. He didn't
21:35understand anything about legal
21:37procedures. That’s why he always
21:39surrounded himself with an army of
21:41lawyers. One of those lawyers advised
21:43him to lay low for a while. For example
21:45, buy an ordinary house, instead of the
21:47very expensive one he's in now, and
21:48live there. Live in that house just
21:50like any normal businessman. Outside
21:52the house, he can travel, go out, and
21:54do whatever he wants. But in public, he
21:55should be normal and not draw attention
21:57. Jimmy actually did everything his
21:59lawyer told him. We reach the events of
22:01our story in 2019, when Bitcoin hit
22:04staggering numbers and Jimmy’s
22:06fortune, which was in Bitcoin, reached
22:093 billion dollars. But unfortunately,
22:11he won't get to enjoy much. More of
22:13this fortune. In January of the same
22:16year, 2019, Jimmy traveled to one of
22:18the. Countries with his friends as
22:19usual. He had a bag with a million
22:21dollars in it. And a flash drive with a
22:22million dollars worth of Bitcoin. Jimmy
22:24spent. On himself and his friends on
22:26this trip 300,000 dollars. A few days
22:28later, he returned home. He and his
22:29friends, and he had the bag containing
22:31the rest of the million dollars, which
22:33was 700,000 dollars, and the flash
22:34drive with the million dollars in
22:36Bitcoin. As soon as he entered the
22:38house, in front of 25 people, he hid
22:40that bag in a place that was supposed
22:42to be secret. A few days later, Jimmy
22:44left the house. When he came back, he
22:46found...the bag was stolen. When he
22:47checked the cameras, he discovered that
22:48the one who stole the bag was one of
22:50the friends he had been partying with.
22:51What would any normal person in the
22:53world do in this situation? I mean, a
22:54thief is a thief. The dark web and you
22:57have 3 billion dollars. Someone came
22:59and stole 1,700,000 dollars from you.
23:01What would you do? Nothing at all. You
23:03would say, "Alright man, enjoy them." I
23:04have millions upon millions. I'll look.
23:06At what you took, really? But Jimmy
23:07didn't do that. Because, my dear, he
23:09was a bit sensitive. He felt the
23:11betrayal of friends. The money didn't
23:12hurt him as much as the betrayal of his
23:14friends did. How could a friend of mine
23:16, whom I feed, drink, and take on trips
23:17at my own expense? And in the end, he
23:19robbed me. So, what did he do? He did
23:21the stupidest thing he could possibly
23:22do. He called the police and reported
23:24the robbery. The police officers
23:26actually came and started investigating
23:27the matter. But suddenly, they found
23:29themselves investigating Jimmy himself
23:31instead of the thief. The first thing
23:33the officers noticed was that this
23:36guy's trips and purchases were insane.
23:38It’s impossible for anything to cover
23:40them, not even the three companies he
23:42owns. So, where are you getting this
23:43money from? And how do you have 1.7
23:45million dollars sitting in your house
23:46just like that? Ten days later, Jimmy
23:48called one of his lawyers. And told him
23:51about. Everything. The lawyer told him,
23:52"No, man, it’s solvable.""It's very
23:54easy.""I can solve it for you over the
23:55phone.""I don’t even need to go to
23:57court." After the lawyer hung up with
23:58Jimmy, he tore up the power of attorney
24:00. And started destroying any paper
24:02proving he had ever been connected to
24:04him. Because the lawyer knew and was
24:07sure that he was finished. The bigger
24:09disaster is that after Jimmy was sure
24:11the government suspected him and was
24:12watching him, he still didn't stop. He
24:14kept traveling, touring the world,
24:15spending on his friends, and living.
24:17Living a life of excess and
24:18extravagance as if nothing was wrong.
24:19He traveled to India, China, Africa,
24:21and even came to us here in Egypt. All
24:23this was happening while the FBI was
24:24watching him. And they kept him under
24:26surveillance for two years. From 2019,
24:28when he filed the report, until May 7,
24:302021, when two men entered Jimmy's
24:33house. They claimed they were
24:34investigators looking into the case of
24:36the man who robbed him. Jimmy didn’t
24:37know these two were actually
24:39programmers working for U.S.
24:40cybersecurity. And both of them were
24:42wearing hidden recording cameras on
24:43their clothes. At first, they talked to
24:45him about the case. Then they started
24:47talking to him about other various
24:48topics. They said they were very
24:50impressed by his personality and his
24:51lifestyle. And they would love to learn
24:53from him how he trades in
24:54cryptocurrencies. Jimmy, my friend, was
24:56kind; he was very kind. And he always
24:58loved hearing praise and nice words
25:00from people. When he heard the
25:01investigators 'compliments, he was very
25:03pleased with himself. And he started
25:04explaining to them on his personal
25:06laptop how he trades. He opened his
25:07Instagram for them and started showing
25:09them the photos he took around the
25:11world. And they befriended him. These
25:12two kept coming back for several days
25:14in a row. Until what happened on the
25:1512th of that month; the two went to him
25:17and started talking as usual. And Jimmy
25:19brought out his laptop to teach them
25:21trading. After a while, one of the
25:23investigators cleverly took Jimmy
25:25outside the house and started talking
25:26to him. And the investigator they left
25:28inside took Jimmy's laptop and copied
25:30everything on it. After that, of course
25:32, they arrested him. The real shock the
25:34police found in that house wasn't on
25:37his laptop. While searching the house,
25:39they found a tin of snacks on one of
25:41the shelves. Inside this tin was a
25:43small hard drive. On this hard drive,
25:45they found all the cryptocurrency he
25:47stole from the Silk Road website.
25:4950,000 Bitcoin, and the price of a
25:52single coin back then was $ 60,000. So,
25:55Jimmy's net worth was 2 billion and
25:58500,000 dollars. That is, of course,
26:00besides the extravagance and spending
26:01he did over the past eight years. At
26:03the end of the story, Jimmy was
26:04sentenced to two years in prison.
26:06Currently, there are no sources
26:07confirming where he is now, or if he
26:09has been released from prison or not.
26:12And that's it, my friend, that was our
26:14story for today. I hope I presented it
26:16to you in a way that you enjoyed. If
26:17you want to know more about the Dark
26:19Web, go to the channel and watch the
26:20Adventurers and the Dark Web video. It
26:22is rich in information and is
26:23considered one of the strongest videos
26:24on the channel. That's it, don't forget
26:26to like, share, and write in the
26:28comments below that you reached this
26:30point in the video with me. That's all,
26:32this was Islam Khattab with you. I'll
26:34see you in a new story, God willing,
26:37bye.

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