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