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Ross Ulbricht: should he spend the rest of his life in prison?

 
 
 
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Zimmerman and Darren Wilson are old news. Let's talk about Ross Ulbrich (AKA Dread Pirate Roberts).

I could give a shit about the drugs or money laundering, but if he really did attempt to kill 6 people then, yeah, he needs to be kept in lockup. I think the FBI is full of shit, but how much shit I'm not sure. His defense attorneys seem creative. There is even a Free Ross website http://freeross.org/ (I have all ads blocked so I don't know if it's authentic or just someone trying to make money.)
 
I can't think of a faster way to lose money that to hire an anonymous hit man and pay with Bitcoin. It doesn't see like he would be that stupid.
 
barbos said:
I agree
It doesn't see like he would be that stupid.
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Not so sure about that. He does seem pretty stupid to me.
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The he's probably telling the truth and was set up as the fall guy. DPR seems connected to Satoshi Nakamoto and whoever wrote that code was fucking smart (Bitcoin not Silk Road). This has to be the most fascinating headline I've ever read:


Israeli Mathematicians Connect Mysterious Bitcoin Founder to Silk Road’s ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’
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http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/11/2...n-founder-to-silk-roads-dread-pirate-roberts/
 
I saw something where someone said that the Bitcoin unit of Satoshi was named such to make people think that it was made by Honorable Japanese, not shyster Jews.
 
repoman said:
I saw something where someone said that the Bitcoin unit of Satoshi was named such to make people think that it was made by Honorable Japanese, not shyster Jews.
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I doubt it. This would be the first time i heard of a BTC called a Satoshi. The Bitcoin community is made up of interesting nuts so who knows? The comments in the code would lead one to believe that Satoshi Nakamoto is British, but whoever did it would be smart enough to fake it.
 
NobleSavage said:
repoman said:
I saw something where someone said that the Bitcoin unit of Satoshi was named such to make people think that it was made by Honorable Japanese, not shyster Jews.
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I doubt it. This would be the first time i heard of a BTC called a Satoshi. The Bitcoin community is made up of interesting nuts so who knows? The comments in the code would lead one to believe that Satoshi Nakamoto is British, but whoever did it would be smart enough to fake it.
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I stand corrected http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/114/what-is-a-satoshi
 
I don't know how much of the allegations are truth. *IF* he's guilty of all charges he should be locked away for a long time. I have my doubts there, though.

I don't think he was set up, though.
 
http://www.wired.com/2015/03/ross-ulbricht-calls-new-trial-alleging-feds-hacked-tor/

Before Ross Ulbricht has even been sentenced for his conviction last month of running the Silk Road’s massive online narcotics operation, his defense team has launched a motion to grant him another trial. And their request is based in part on fresh evidence that the federal government surveilled the Silk Road’s server in Iceland without a warrant, and may have even launched hacking attacks against the site.

On Friday evening, Ulbricht’s attorneys filed a new memo to Judge Katherine Forrest seeking to not only give Ulbricht a new trial, but to re-open an earlier motion to suppress all the evidence in the case that resulted from law enforcement’s identification of the Silk Road server. The defense team argues that investigation included illegal searches tantamount to hacking the server without a warrant, which would violate Ulbricht’s Fourth Amendment rights. Records of the investigation that were made available to Ulbricht only just before his trial in January, the defense says, show that Department of Homeland Security investigators were actively attempting to break the protections of the anonymity software Tor, which hid the Silk Road’s location.
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NobleSavage said:
http://www.wired.com/2015/03/ross-ulbricht-calls-new-trial-alleging-feds-hacked-tor/

Before Ross Ulbricht has even been sentenced for his conviction last month of running the Silk Road’s massive online narcotics operation, his defense team has launched a motion to grant him another trial. And their request is based in part on fresh evidence that the federal government surveilled the Silk Road’s server in Iceland without a warrant, and may have even launched hacking attacks against the site.

On Friday evening, Ulbricht’s attorneys filed a new memo to Judge Katherine Forrest seeking to not only give Ulbricht a new trial, but to re-open an earlier motion to suppress all the evidence in the case that resulted from law enforcement’s identification of the Silk Road server. The defense team argues that investigation included illegal searches tantamount to hacking the server without a warrant, which would violate Ulbricht’s Fourth Amendment rights. Records of the investigation that were made available to Ulbricht only just before his trial in January, the defense says, show that Department of Homeland Security investigators were actively attempting to break the protections of the anonymity software Tor, which hid the Silk Road’s location.
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Trying to break them isn't illegal. What counts is how they were trying to break them.
 
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