/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>23506390
Probably higher price, scared lots of normies off

>>23506390

BTC was created by the intelligence agencies to control American commerce. For all you know he was actually a patsy.

Will there ever be another silk road? Dont say Empire its shit

>>23506390
i miss this lil nigga like you wouldn't believe

>>23506390

He was convicted using parallel construction and should never have been in prison

>>23506419
That was practically the only regular use-case at the time and allowed for adoption.

>>23506425
No it wasn't schizo.

>>23506429
Yes. The more decentralized things become, the harder they will be to track.

>>23506564
>>23506666
His case was completely fucked up and should be free right now. I'd vote for any presidential candidate that would pardon him.

>>23506666
What?

>>23506666
holy trips

>>23506766

Do you not know about Edward Snowden and parallel construction? It's a corrupt prosecution mechanism that violates the 4th amendment

>>23506859
No, must have been something that was memory holed. Got any links? All I know is that DRP was set up by the feds, one fed was arrested, another got away very rich.

>>23506429
Probably not. The guy who founded it is in life with no parole I believe. Yes, you could make a lot of money but it's getting easier and easier to track. I think the best is to just rely on smaller websites. Although it's shadier, it's just not worth making a big place if it's hard to get away with it.

>>23506390
no!
>>23506425
*Barf*
>>23506429
cmon?

>>23507006
There actually will when the smartcontracts ecosystem/net work effects mature.

>>23507041
fbi owns 26,000 bitcoin worth 338 million

>>23507718
I thought they auctioned them off a while ago.

>>23507737
They did, Tim draper bought them all

>>23507718
and the value of btc in wallets controlled by individuals is 10-50x more than that. feds are sardines.

Literally the best case study why women shouldn't be judges. She said she wished she could give him even harsher a penalty

>>23506390
This poor kid is getting tortured right now for basically nothing

>>23508247
really? no place for emotionallity from a judge.

>>23507006
> In May 2015, he was sentenced to a double life sentence plus forty years without the possibility of parole.
Jesus fuck. Double life for creating an online market place, meanwhile politicians scam us for millions every year.

Whats your favorite place to buy durgs and illegal stuff on the darknet bros?

>>23506994

Here you go. The three letter agencies are not your friend

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141004/09352528729/documents-released-silk-road-case-add-more-evidence-to-parallel-construction-theory.shtml

>>23508781
Determine for yourself. Read the unsealed transcripts from Judge Forrest. Easy enough to find

>>23509072
Yep, we're getting screwed bigtime.

>>23509072
Maybe now you realize the power of law and why it government should be limited at all costs. Liberals, left wingers, and all their ilk should be tied up and bounded as much as possible.

It's bs that he got life, but the way he defended himself in court was absolutely brainded desu.

>>23509072
>Jesus fuck. Double life for creating an online market place
Jep. He got the worst deal. Way heavier guys them him are already walking free.

>>23511153
Did he at least use a lawyer or did he actually try to do all on his own without much legal knowledge whatsoever?

nono, he did hire lawyers and such but the story he tried to make the judge believe was just obnoxious. - he said he was just a fall guy and the real dpr was still out there even though he was caught red-handed logged in as dpr on his pic

Fun fact: Ross Ulbricht once personally sent me 10 BTC.

It was in 2011 when that amount was only worth $30 or so, and I had it in my silk road account and was going to buy some psychs with it. I followed the link to the site from the hidden wiki because I hadn't bookmarked it, but soon after I logged in, the funds in my account was gone. Later, I realized I had been fooled by phishing and the hidden wiki link was fraudulent, but I didn't get it the time, so I contacted silk road support. The Dread Pirate Roberts account replied, and he gave me the 10 BTC back no problem, even though it was all my fault to begin with. What a class act, he has way better business ethics than most Fortune 500 CEOs.

>>23509072
Why didn't he move to a different country? He had made enough money to live like a king anywhere, and the website could be operated from anywhere, too. And there are countries where the absolute max sentence for anything drug related is only like 10 years, like here in Norway. Seems like staying in a country with such a fetish for punishment like the US would be an enormous, unnecessary risk.

>>23511578
Well, if you get caught in the act and think you can lie about it then you shouldn't expect any clemency. However, 40 years alone would have been plenty. He's getting sentenced like he brutally murdered and dismembered people and ordered killings and shit.

>>23511694
>implying they wouldn't give him the assange treatment

>>23507718
I hope they price locked

>>23509140
I never thought they were.

>>23506390
He was pretty good looking. He could have had it all.

>>23506390
Nope. Literally found out about bitcoin because I wanted to buy drugs on the internet as an edge 16 year old back in 2012. Never thought it would get this big

>>23507778
I knew it was something like that, forgot the name, I don't care about faggots.

>>23511808
It's not really big. Just over inflated price. Mostly used as a money laudering tool by foreign interests, china, isis, etc...

>>23509072
>for conspiring to have several people killed
FTFY

>>23511605
what happened to the 10btc, did you end up spending them?

>>23511872
But that was fake. Arguably entrapment.

>>23511937
Not entrapment, an act of fraud, sure.
But it doesn't matter.
He paid bitcoin, in the agreed amounts, at the times he agreed to, for the purposes of murder.
You just can't get around that.
His sentence is rather extreme, but you would think that if he had grounds for an appeal then he would be aware of that by now.

>>23509096
I'm out of work and need a job is the FBI hiring? I'll take a really low wage. :(

>>23509096

>>23511872
Based on what? That's not what i heard or just read

>>23506390
This guy got two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years with no chance of parole. I guess the Feds really hate competition to their own drug trade network. Being a goy certainly didn't help either.

>>23512886
hardcore

i wouldn't be i spent 3.5 btc on 7g of white rhino

>>23506666
Based satan

>>23509072
The worst crime in America is making money if you aren't part of the club.

>>23512886
It really shows how optics changes a scenario. The Bush family were directly involved with selling drugs in South America but they are seen as patriots but Ross is seen as a monster for being a middle man.

>>23511384
>Blake
look at that soiboy face of course he snitched lmao

>>23514602
good point

>>23506859
Snowden and Assange are controlled opposition, Well poisoners. The real people doing work on exposing the (((their))) bullshit end up dead in mysterious ways see Michael Hastings, Aaron Schwartz and Dr David Kelly.

>>23514766
The jew fears the independent media

>>23514766
Likely Snowden, but not Assange. He's probably being tortured right now.

>>23512125
It's just nuts that the government does the same thing and actually kills people every day and they will never be punished for it.

>>23511925
wouldn’t you like to know, glownigger

>>23515239
The state absorbed and became the mob in the 1960’s. It’s a protection racket. We either pay up, or they throw us in a cage.

>>23506429
empire exit scammed brah. white house is where it's at now. and no. there will never be another silk road

>>23514766
>Aaron Schwartz
you think he was killed?

>>23509096
Alphabay and CGMC before they were taken down last year.

>>23506390
It would probably be better off. At least in terms of price.

>>23511872
Was he charged with that? Oh yeah, no he wasn't.

>>23515286
This.

a better version of it is inevitable with decentralized hosting and domain

>>23507718
Don’t forget what they seized from btce...

>>23513788
This board is fucked then. All your LINKs will be seized by DOJ when $1000.

>>23506390
#FreeRoss

>>23506390
>>23506756
>>23515951
>>23516071
Why do Ross faggots always try to overstate what he supposedly did for crypto? Wikileaks arguably did way more than he did to bring attention to BTC as a legitimate financial instrument (to the point that Satoshi actually got mad about it) and I don't see anyone shilling for Assange on this board.