Mt. Gox & Silk Road: How Bitcoin’s Wild Childhood Shaped our Present

The early 2010s were for crypto like the Internet’s wild frontier: no clear laws, no big investors, and certainly no NFTs. In 2011, a young libertarian named Ross Ulbricht launched an online marketplace called the Silk Road. By 2013, it hosted thousands of listings, and had processed over $1.2 billion in Bitcoin transactions.