Dear Nostr,

Last week Tuesday, January 21st, 2025 Ross was released from prison!

While I have been tracking privacy and cryptography since 2000 and know about the cyberpunks and heard about Silk Road, I did not know all the details…. Having done some research, I am now up to speed and so I created this poster called Bitcoin Flowers for Ross.

Having done studies on Living systems at the BuckMinster Fuller Institute during COVID I started doing fermentations with the Japanese fungus KOJI to stay sane and learnt a lot about the power of mycelium…. After reading this passage from WIRED on Ross it made me think about the article called “Bitcoin is the Mycelium of Money” so I added in some mushroom iconography … https://brandonquittem.com/bitcoin-is-the-mycelium-of-money/

“The idea was to create a website where people could buy anything anonymously, with no trail whatsoever that could lead back to them. I had been studying the technology for a while, but needed a business model and strategy. I finally decided that I would produce mushrooms so that I could list them on the site for cheap to get people interested. I worked my ass off setting up a lab in a cabin out near Bastrop off the grid. In hindsight, this was a terrible idea and I would never repeat it, but I did it and produced several kilos of high quality shrooms.”

https://www.wired.com/2015/01/heres-secret-silk-road-journal-laptop-ross-ulbricht/?mbid=social_fb

My question is: What kind of mushrooms did Ross grow?

Have a blessed day!

Yours Truly,

A13MW

P.S. “Don’t think about making art, just get it done.  Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it.  While they are deciding, make even more art.” – Andy Warhol

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