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1/ Ross Ulbricht, creator of the Silk Road, has just been pardoned by @realDonaldTrump after serving 11 years!
His story sparked controversy & debate about justice, technology, and freedom.
Most people here joined crypto after Ross was sentenced.
So here's a Ross... See more
The Silk Road wasn’t just a digital drug cartel. It was a highly lucrative start-up with a lot of optionality.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
Ross Ulbricht (@RealRossU) didn’t sell drugs—he built an anonymous, free, and open platform on Tor called Silk Road.
Silk Road sold apparel, art, books, collectibles, computer equipment, electronics, herbs, and yeah—drugs. But according to friends who used it, Silk Road was arguably the safest way drugs were ever sold:... See more
out on June 5 when Senator Chuck Schumer of New York held a heavily covered news conference, at which he decried the brazen business of Silk Road and called for prosecutors to shut it down. He described Bitcoin as an “online form of money laundering used to disguise the source of money, and to disguise who’s both selling and buying the drug.”
