max words, excluding references = 350 Ten years after the formation of the internet trading site called Silk Road, a film of the same name depicting the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht has been made. Recently $1 billion in Bitcoin that had “disappeared” from the Silk Road account was finally tracked down and was confiscated by the US government (BBC News, 2020). The founder of Silk Road has been portrayed as anything from a libertarian with a desire for people to have a free market outside government scrutiny (Kushner and Kushner, 2014) to a criminal who set up a site for drug trafficking and possibly ordered the murder of at least one colleague (Bilton, 2020). The proof identifying Ross Ulbricht as the man running Silk Road included information found on his open and unlocked laptop. Read over your notes from Activity 4.11 and write a brief article that explores the topic. You may need to do some further research. Include a short introduction to your piece. Cover the following points: What methods did Silk Road use to protect the anonymity of both its users and its administrator? In your opinion should sites like Silk Road be allowed to exist outside any government or legal framework? Briefly justify your conclusion. The film is reviewed on the New Scientist Website. Search for this and provide a reference to the review using the OU Cite Them Right Harvard referencing style. Use the electronic article with no print equivalent example in the Cite Them Right referencing style. Note that in this case there is issue information but no page reference. (Also, it is worth noting that there is a print equivalent to the article, but this example still seems the closest match to the source document).
max words, excluding references = 350
Ten years after the formation of the internet trading site called Silk Road, a film of the same name depicting the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht has been made. Recently $1 billion in Bitcoin that had “disappeared” from the Silk Road account was finally tracked down and was confiscated by the US government (BBC News, 2020).
The founder of Silk Road has been portrayed as anything from a libertarian with a desire for people to have a free market outside government scrutiny (Kushner and Kushner, 2014) to a criminal who set up a site for drug trafficking and possibly ordered the murder of at least one colleague (Bilton, 2020).
The proof identifying Ross Ulbricht as the man running Silk Road included information found on his open and unlocked laptop.
Read over your notes from Activity 4.11 and write a brief article that explores the topic. You may need to do some further research. Include a short introduction to your piece. Cover the following points:
- What methods did Silk Road use to protect the anonymity of both its users and its administrator?
- In your opinion should sites like Silk Road be allowed to exist outside any government or legal framework? Briefly justify your conclusion.
The film is reviewed on the New Scientist Website. Search for this and provide a reference to the review using the OU Cite Them Right Harvard referencing style. Use the electronic article with no print equivalent example in the Cite Them Right referencing style. Note that in this case there is issue information but no page reference. (Also, it is worth noting that there is a print equivalent to the article, but this example still seems the closest match to the source document).
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