Silk Road, A tribute to Ross Ulbricht - Tatiana Moroz

This letter to Ross Ulbricht was written by Tatiana Moroz. 3/25/16 Dear Ross, Tatiana MorozTatiana Moroz I am fussing around the living room tonight admiring my handiwork. I’ve created pretty much the best birthday card I’ve ever made J It’s a vegetable cake (in case you can’t tell), since I know how much you crave good nutrition in prison. I hope it....

On Sunday liberty activists gathered to promote a message of freedom and justice and to raise funds for the Free Ross campaign. The aim was to raise $14,000 USD to pay off the cost of printing the appeal. Lyn Ulbricht’s invitation message for the Free Ross Campaign is available here. The Free Ross Campaign’s work extends beyond Ross Ulbricht’s case and....

Ross Ulbricht will no longer be standing trial on November 10th, 2014 for his alleged part in the Silk Road underground marketplace. Instead, Wired Reporter Andy Greenberg has reported that the trial has been delayed by two months, to January 2015. Ross Ulbricht faces multiple charges of drug trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering, and "continuing a criminal enterprise." The charges are serious to say the least. Silk Road, an infamous Deep Net marketplace billed as "Amazon for drugs," was taken offline by joint government agency action in October of 2013. On that day, the FBI....

50,000 Bitcoins are going to be auctioned in the coming weeks. Despite the fact that Ross Ulbricht is not scheduled to stand trial until after the holiday season, the US Marshal's Service is going ahead with a second round of their Silk Road Bitcoin Auction. These Bitcoins that are currently being sold through the beginning of December likely belong to Ross Ulbricht himself, not Silk Road or Silk Road users. In January, Ross Ulbricht and his lawyers signed a court order that allowed the USMS to sell Bitcoins belonging to Silk Road and all property traceable from said crime, "including but....

You might know him as "Dread Pirate Roberts" or just DPR but his real name is supposedly Ross Ulbricht, and he is the alleged founder of the underground exchange Silk Road. Mr. Ulbricht is currently facing charges of drug trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering, and "continuing criminal enterprise." The FBI has claimed to have gained the IP address to a server hosting Silk Road. This server led to the connection and current case against Mr. Ulbricht, but the means as to how the FBI gained this information has been in question. Mr. Ulbricht's defenses have made arguments last week....