Ross Ulbricht is not a saint.
He enabled crime. He ran a marketplace where real people got hurt.
That matters. It always will.
But let’s be honest—he also built the first use-case that forced Bitcoin into the real world.
He showed the world that code could outmaneuver control.
And for that, they didn’t give him a sentence.
They gave him a silence.
Two life sentences.
For code.
While bankers launder billions and walk free?
The 300 BTC donation isn’t celebrating crime.
It’s mourning proportion.
It’s a whisper from the network:
“We saw what you did. We also see what they’ve done.”
Justice must be real.
But justice must also be measured.
For those caught in the middle:
- “What does it say when a drug site founder gets life, but bankers get bailouts?”
- “Why the 300 BTC isn’t about approval - it’s about proportion”
- “What the network remembers… and what the courts erased”
- “The line between punishment and message - is this justice, or warning?”
Wrote this with a clenched jaw and conflicted heart.
That’s how I know it’s TRUE.
#Bitcoin
