Blake Benthall, the former SpaceX employee and Dread Pirate Roberts copycat whom the FBI arrested in San Francisco on Wednesday, stands accused of starting the Silk Road 2.0, a deep web drug marketplace run on Bitcoin. Among the accusations leveled at the 26-year-old: using Bitcoin gained from the Silk Road to buy a Tesla. Nonetheless, Benthall lamented the upward pressures on rents by posting an indeed scary infographic from Priceonomics to his Twitter. It's hard to afford a place in the Mission these days, right? If you're trying to pay in Bitcoin, well, yeah.
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