[tptacek]

His Karpeles defense was laughable.

The defense learned during discovery that there was an affidavit from one of the investigators suggesting that Karpeles was a likely SR suspect. That suspicion was based on Karpeles position in the BTC ecosystem and, more damningly, on the fact that a public website promoting Silk Road was running from Karpeles own hardware.

It turns out that Karpeles had hardware with a Silk Road website because he ran a hosting company. Someone paid him to stand up a machine that hosted that site.

That someone? According to the evidence discovered from Ulbricht's laptop: Ross Ulbricht.

[gojock]

A Karpeles holding company also registered silkroadmarket.org, which during his ownership was posting mirrors of updates from DPR

[patio11]

The "Karpeles holding company" was a domain registrar which accepted Bitcoin as payments. The customer of the domain registrar? One Ross Ulbricht! Through an alias kept in an aliases file on his computer, using an email account to which his computer held the password.

[gojock]

Ulbricht purchased it when it dropped, Karpeles originally registered it:

https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/555821164661321728