Ross Ulbricht, sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for creating the darknet market Silk Road, is free.
Ulbricht is a freedom fighter to some, and a dangerous criminal to others. The former know Ulbricht as described in Forbes, “a principled libertarian and cypherpunk in the same vein as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto”.
Ulbricht had a theory: that violent drug cartels would have no chance sustaining themselves in a free market environment where the state did not control the use of substances, as non-violent operations would simply outperform the violent ones based on demand.
Most who believe the latter, however, often base their opinion on claims that Ulbricht allegedly attempted to hire a hitman on a former Silk Road administrator, who stood accused of embezzling bitcoin from the site. While Ulbricht’s supporters celebrate, critics are asking: why would an online community so vehemently defend an attempted murderer?
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