FreeRoss.org Releases Rare Ross Ulbricht Home Video
The website FreeRoss.org has changed its look and has recently added a never before seen 2-minute film of Ross Ulbricht at his home in Austin. The defense of Ulbricht has recently appealed the double life sentence given to the Silk Road creator. The 170-page motion shows that there was significant corruption in the investigation, and it claims Ross did not receive a fair trial. The new website is showing the rare home video of Ulbricht and also contains a new contest to help fund the appeal. The new website has a lot to offer supporters of the Ulbricht family and this very topical case.....
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Ross Ulbricht, the alleged founder of the notorious Silk Road drug exchange under the online name of "Dread Pirate Roberts", has had his trial date set to November after pleading not guilty in his hearing. Some supporters of Ulbricht have founded a website to try to raise donations for his defense trial which is set in November. Ulbricht is charged with running an illegal drug operation, and attempting to hire someone to kill one of the users in the silk road. freeross.org says they need help with the case and that:"No donation is too small. Credit card, PayPal, bitcoin all work to help....
Bitcoin evangelist Roger Ver is at it again. He's not giving away a $20,000 bounty like it's nothing though, but he is offering to donate to a cause relating to Ross Ulbricht. I'll give $10 to @Free_Ross for each RT. If guilty, he's a hero. If innocent, he needs help. http://t.co/XwhqrN06UT pic.twitter.com/Oau4dkFvdV. - Roger Ver (@rogerkver) July 5, 2014. Ross Ulbricht is of course a famous name in the bitcoin community ever since he was arrested late last year in connection with the illicit Silk Road marketplace. Officials say that Ulbricht ran the marketplace covertly, yet Ulbricht....
This article has been updated with comments from Roger Ver. Just two days ago, Bitcoin magnate Roger Ver offered to donate $10 for every retweet of his message supporting the Free Ross Ulbricht campaign - which aims to support the man allegedly behind defunct online drug market Silk Road. Now, Ver has announced that the donation limit has been reached. Ulbricht was arrested last year on serious charges relating to the government closure and seizure of Silk Road. However, Ulbricht maintains his innocence and insists he did not violate US law. Following his arrest, Ulbricht's family created....
Ross Ulbricht - the now infamous operator of the [Bitcoin-based] Silk Road online drug trade - has had over $1 million pledged to use as bail money by friends and family. Ulbricht is currency in a jail pending trial. Ulbricht's parents have apparently pledged $700,000 in equity from their home, his sister has pledged her savings of $36,600, and his aunt $200,000 in home equity. In a letter from Tuesday [19 November 2013], Ross Ulbricht's counsel Joshua Dratal notes that Ulbicht's bail hearing is scheduled for the 21st of November [tomorrow]. The letter also reads:
Despite the rise in media attention surrounding Friday's auction of roughly 30,000 BTC seized from Silk Road, a website seeking to clear the name of the online black market's alleged leader, 30-year-old Ross Ulbricht, is not reporting any increase in donations. The bitcoins sold in the most recent auction were confiscated from the Silk Road website when it was seized by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) last October. Notably, the US Marshals auction, of which VC Tim Draper emerged as the winner, did not include 144,000 BTC held by Ulbricht. Those bitcoins are the subject of an....