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TL;DR: A Naval Postgraduate School thesis using Silk Road and later operations to study how Internet tools reshape both crime and its investigation.
About This Document
Ryan D. Jerde maps what he calls hybrid crime, where physical trafficking and digital infrastructure combine in ways older crime categories do not capture. Through affordance theory and stigmergy, the thesis examines Silk Road, Silk Road 2.0, Operation Onymous, AlphaBay, Hansa, Operation Hyperion, BTC-e, Tor, Bitcoin, and public-private investigative partnerships. It also proposes mindset changes and smart-enforcement approaches for agencies facing technical barriers.
Why Bitcoin People May Care
Bitcoin is one enabling technology in a larger system of markets, anonymity networks, logistics, reputation, and enforcement. The thesis is valuable because it refuses to treat darknet crime as purely online. It is a 2017 academic analysis and explicitly represents the author's views rather than official Department of Defense or U.S. government policy.
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Document Details
- Title: Follow the Silk Road: How Internet Affordances Transform Crime and Law Enforcement
- Author / organization: Ryan D. Jerde
- Year: 2017
- Language: English
- Document type: Master's thesis
- Pages: 136
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