On: I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have ...

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He's talking about the Silk Road marketplace - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)

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Silk Road 2.0, Not Ross Ulbricht's but a different Dread Pirate Roberts

[themodelplumber → phpnode]

Thanks, so it sounds like the SpaceX pitch was just the client wanting to build up a really cool cover story while he worked on(?) Silk Road in secret. Right?

[phpnode → themodelplumber]

Presumably yes, and the datapoints being visualised would have presumably been transactions. The admin in question would have been Blake Benthall, not Ross Ulbricht who'd already been caught by then.