What is the current status of DPR account?

[RocketSingh]

Ross Ulbricht is now free - https://streamable.com/taxhr6

What is the current status of his account? Is it locked or he may login again?

Last I read that there was a subpoena...

This is not very surprising/interesting, but I thought I'd mention that I received a subpoena for information related to Ross Ulbricht's alleged forum account altoid. I mostly just compiled some publicly-available information. The only non-public data I had to include were some deleted posts in the heroin store topic that were not written by DPR and probably won't be useful in the case.

You might be surprised to learn that this is the first subpoena I've received for the forum.

[theymos]

Along with many other accounts, it's locked due to being affected by the 2015 data breach and then sitting inactive for a long time. If he wanted to access it, he'd have to go through the Recoveries team and provide proof that it was his account. And it's not immediately clear to me what proof he would use, since the account never posted a Bitcoin address to use for signing a message, or anything like that.

Also, since altoid directly posted a link to the Silk Road, I would guess (not sure) that Ulbricht argued in his court case that it wasn't actually his account. Maybe he wouldn't want to contradict his past testimony?

So he could regain access to the account and post something, but I don't think that it's very likely.

[PrimeNumber7]

Also, since altoid directly posted a link to the Silk Road, I would guess (not sure) that Ulbricht argued in his court case that it wasn't actually his account. Maybe he wouldn't want to contradict his past testimony?

Ulricht declined to testify in his defense. His lawyer may have argued that point in court, but that is not the same as his own testimony.

I am guessing that he probably wants to move on from the Silk Road chapter of his life. I doubt he has much interest in posting from an account that he spent very little time using.

[xmrhopium]

Along with many other accounts, it's locked due to being affected by the 2015 data breach and then sitting inactive for a long time. If he wanted to access it, he'd have to go through the Recoveries team and provide proof that it was his account. And it's not immediately clear to me what proof he would use, since the account never posted a Bitcoin address to use for signing a message, or anything like that.

Ross was looking for an IT professional to hire and provided an email address (rossulbricht@gmail.com), this email address matched Ulbricht's real Gmail account. How about if he sends recovery request thru his valid email address to bitcointalk account recovery team if he wants to regain his altoid account back, will it be possible for him to take over his own account after long years of inactive?

Hello, sorry if there is another thread for this kind of post, but I couldn't find one.  I'm looking for the best and brightest IT pro in the bitcoin community to be the lead developer in a venture backed bitcoin startup company.  The ideal candidate would have at least several years of web application development experience, having built applications from the ground up.  A solid understanding of oop and software architecture is a must.  Experience in a start-up environment is a plus, or just being super hard working, self-motivated, and creative.

Compensation can be in the form of equity or a salary, or somewhere in-between.

If interested, please send your answers to the following questions to rossulbricht at gmail dot com

1) What are your qualifications for this position?
2) What interests you about bitcoin?

From there, we can talk about things like compensation and references and I can answer your questions as well.  Thanks in advance to any interested parties.  If anyone knows another good place to recruit, I am all ears.

[hilariousandco]

I'm sure it could be used as evidence, though not ideal. He might not even have access to it himself or somone else controls it. The US government might have even got access to it via a subpeona. If he's going to rejoin here he'd probably be best just starting afresh with a new handle.

[NotATether]

So he could regain access to the account and post something, but I don't think that it's very likely.

Bitcointalk's not the same as it was 10 years ago anyway. I doubt he would be much interested in this place anymore.

[dkbit98]

Also, since altoid directly posted a link to the Silk Road, I would guess (not sure) that Ulbricht argued in his court case that it wasn't actually his account. Maybe he wouldn't want to contradict his past testimony?

I tend to be on his side here, and I don't think this altoid was his account.
However, I am sure he had other forum accounts he used in early days and I would love to see him coming back and posting something in bitcointalk.

If he's going to rejoin here he'd probably be best just starting afresh with a new handle.

This is probably the best way to do it, but than we can always have some scammers registering new accounts and pretending to be Ross.

[DireWolfM14]

I don't know why any of you think he'd want to come back here publicly.  Sure, it would be fun to see altoid or DPR making posts again for historic purposes, but he would essentially be doxing himself by doing so.  If I were in his shoes and wanted to rejoin the community, I would want to do so on my terms, and anonymously.

[hd49728]

Along with many other accounts, it's locked due to being affected by the 2015 data breach and then sitting inactive for a long time

There are three times forum was hacked and data breaches.

Thank you for clarifying the DPR account case, but for anyone who want to know more about forum data breaches in 2011, 2013, and 2015, there we go.

Bitcointalk history of hacks and vandalism.

[MysteryMiner]

I must add that I am confident DPR is not the founder of Silk Road. Ross probably is DPR but the original Silk Road admin went just by name Silkroad. I communicated with both of them back then and the way of communication was different enough to be two different persons. Or a single man doing pretty good job impersonating different personas. So Ross just might have taken the blame for everything all.