Ross Ulbricht Marks Fifth Anniversary in Prison
Alleged founder of Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, marked his fifth year in prison. October 1st, 2013, Mr. Ulbricht began a double life sentence without the possibility of parole for his alleged founding and running of the Silk Road online marketplace. On the occasion of his fifth full year, FreeRoss.org launched a new project to raise awareness of his story and how he might one day be released.
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Ross Ulbricht Has Spent Five Years in Prison
“October 1 marks five years that Ross has been imprisoned,” wrote the Ulbricht family via email to news.Bitcoin.com. “On this unhappy anniversary, we’re launching a new project revealing many surprising details about Ross’ case, unknown to most people. You can read or listen to the first episode now. There are six weekly episodes that will take you through the labyrinthine maze of this outrageous case, so stay tuned.”
Ross Ulbricht Marks Fifth Anniversary in Prison
The Silk Road was an underground marketplace, bringing buyers and sellers together in a decidedly non judgmental atmosphere. Various goods and services offered often ran afoul of the law. In order to purchase many of Silk Road’s offerings, the online market enabled vendors and customers to use bitcoin core (BTC), and thus provided an early use case for decentralized cryptocurrency.
“Although five years in prison would harden many,” the family continued, “it is not true of Ross. Throughout his long ordeal he has remained a positive force and is liked by inmates, guards and prison staff alike. True to his values of peace and non-violence, Ross recently refused to take part in an assault on another inmate. This defiance made him a target and he was put in solitary protective custody, where he is today. He could have avoided this hardship but wasn’t willing to hurt someone else. Yet the judge ruled that Ross was so dangerous that she condemned him to die in prison.”