The Silk Road marketplace and the prosecution of its founder Ross Ulbricht were Bitcoin's original brush with the law, and the panel returned to it for over a decade — through the trial, the double life-sentence, the seized-coin auctions, and the eventual pardon campaign.
Across the years
Mentions per year in the show transcripts.
The episodes that covered it most
Ranked by how heavily each episode engaged the topic.
METHOD — Counts are keyword/theme matches across the show transcripts (WCN + Mad Bitcoins + TBG).
The written synthesis is grounded in Bitcoin's public history and the show's coverage.