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When Ulbricht launched Silk Road, he probably didn't have any bad intentions, so we should consider that when judging him.
But yes, Ulbrichts actions resulted in a lot of damage.
The early days of when Bitcoin was launched, many criminals abused it and unfortunately a lot of them gathered on Silk Road for criminal business.
The dust settled now, the criminal use of Bitcoin is decreasing and maybe one day, Ulbricht will be released from jail. I would not rule it out.
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Since the option of "none of them" has been added in the poll, I think one more option should have been added - "both of them".
Good point, I would also like to see such an option, since it would change the outcome probably. And you can't vote for both in OP's poll.
For this gentleman I fell into FTX Token Scam in November 2022 worth $1500.
Sad to hear, mate! I hope it isn't all of your money and you had most of your money in a private wallet.
Always make sure, that you don't store your valuable coins on exchanges.
It's even more risky than trading!
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They cannot be compared, but its illogical one is in prison and one is free... If Ross payed for killing, then he should be in prison... for the rest I can see something which started with a good idea, with a lot of freedom etc ....
SBF is a scam from the start and we will never know what exactly happened with politicians etc but for sure a lot happened which hurt lots of people
Like I said, there is nothing logical in this clown world, especially if you are watching mainstream brainwashing all the time.
That's a slogan often used mostly by fascists who don't have any arguments left, so these fascists claim it's all "brainwashing by msm". In reality the world is much more complex that in the heads of these extremists.
In general, the concept of "msM bAd" is antithetical to what an educated person would do: hear all the arguments, evaluate the arguments and look at the education of the people voicing the arguments. For example, a gardener is probably a bad source for planetary science and so on.
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The funny thing: the conspiracy nut crowd has started producing a massive amount of lies over the last 5 years (probably more than over the last 25 years combined), and that will become a big problem for the conspiracy theorists as more and more of it is proven as a lie. Nobody willtake them serios anymore at some point.
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Regardless, the claim that Ross Ulbricht is innocent is not something I believe. He was aware that millions of dangerous illegal trades were taking place on the Silk Road, but he did nothing about it.
As far as I know, Ulbricht admitted that SilkRoad has been a mistake.
I also expect he was not fully aware, that Silk Road would get abused like that.
And personally, I would always re-evaluate an imprisonment if that person had admitted their mistake and if the person still is a danger for society.
I don't know if that's a valid argument since I’m not a lawyer but when releasing someone from prison, we should also consider: how likely is it, that the person who's currently in jail will do crimes again, when he's released?
Is it more beneficial for society to keep him in prison or is it more beneficial to release him?
And for Ulbricht, I believe, it wouldn’t hurt to release him.
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