Ross Ulbricht regrets creating the darknet market website 'Silk Road'

https://twitter.com/RealRossU/status/1366798043123748865

by dsr12 • 5 years ago

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chovybizzass• 5 years ago

yeah. two consecutive terms of life in prison.

wakahiu• 5 years ago

He ordered and paid for 2 people to be murdered. Do you still think Clemency should be granted?

dsr12• 5 years ago

Didn't know about this. His clemency petition [1] doesn't mention any serious crimes. It even lists over 250 organizations, eminent individuals and leaders have voiced their support[2] for clemency.

[1] https://www.change.org/p/president-of-the-united-states-clem... [2] https://freeross.org/support/

bitxbitxbitcoin• 5 years ago

Yes, because those accusations were never proven in court.

frankbraun2• 5 years ago

No, he didn't. These allegations were just made up and not even part of the court case later. But sure enough, for every story about Ross somebody brings this up as if it's a matter of fact.

masterofmisc• 5 years ago

Damn man. I also heard the same thing. Also, I could have sworn it was mentioned in the audio book I read.

Barrin922• 5 years ago

There's no reason to believe the allegations were made up. They were not part of the charges, but the alleged hitman himself, federal investigators, as well as journalists having studied everything related to the case are certain that Ulbricht did in fact pay for the hits on several individuals. The transcripts of the chats have been available for years.

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-boss-first-murder-at...

gridder• 5 years ago

As the story goes, he was scammed. The ‘2 people’ didn’t even exist... Anyway nobody will ever prove it’s true or not so it’s just hearsay.... I personally support his cause because he is a scapegoat.

coolspot• 5 years ago

How he tweets from prison? Does some friend/relative running it for him?

mgerullis2• 5 years ago

I was asking myself the same thing

bmcn2020• 5 years ago

From this article: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/08/16/silk-road-founde...

"his family opened a Twitter account for him in June, and they’ve been posting his tweets ever since."

donmcronald• 5 years ago

The thing I never understood about it was how he planned to cash out his Bitcoin. Isn't it a public ledger where anyone can see where the money is moving?

mgerullis2• 5 years ago

If his addresses have been identified then yes, that becomes harder to do.

jdxcode3• 5 years ago

tumblers exist

colejohnson662• 5 years ago

But how effective are they if you’re putting in half of the tumbler’s pot? As in, if you put in a quarter of a million dollars, and others do too, you have a high likelihood of getting some of yours back. So the coins are still traceable to you.

thu2111• 5 years ago

It turns out that a lot of surprisingly impactful criminals never really figure out how to launder their money. Ulbricht appears to have had no real plan for how to actually benefit from his criminal proceeds, instead enjoying the feeling of being 'bitcoin rich' whilst living an unremarkably lifestyle.

Paul LeRoux seems to have also been a bit like that, albeit more successful at the laundering part. Nonetheless, when he was finally caught it turned out most of his wealth was in the form of precious metals under physical guard, and IIRC there was some sort of dispute over theft.

The anti-money laundering system has some questionable tactics in it: it grants virtually unchecked power to regulators and the US Treasury to squash whoever they like for whatever reason they like, and those powers were badly abused under the Bush administration. Think punishment without trial for people who criticised Israel, stuff like that. However it's an evolved system that does appear to raise the bar to serious organised crime.

Ross Ulbricht regrets creating the darknet market website 'Silk Road'

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