Look it up they are making a documentary from Ross's own mothers words you can watch the first episode at
freeross.org/railroaded
Episode 2 October 9th!
Look it up the government threw at the murder/murder for hire charge after being sentenced life for being the Creator of Silk Roadmurder is not on his record All Non Violent. And 1ST TIME OFFENSE!!!
Read my first post. I did watch it, but it seems to be a puff piece filled with lies and anything Ross can do to try shift blame. I'm not disputing whether he was charged or not for the murder, but it's still relevant in my opinion, especially to him as a person. Ross could just be the libertarian he set out or claimed to be, or the money, power and anonymity could have corrupted him and turned him into a digital drug lord who thought he was untouchable and will take out his enemies if he thinks they're a threat to him and his business. I hope for his sake it isn't true but we don't really know either way yet and that's what we need to establish. All I see so far from that documentary is desperate lies based on circumstantial evidence by Ross which doesn't look good for his character, especially if he's trying to pin this on an innocent man. That to me would be despicable.
I personally like the Dutch model of dealing with addicts - where they are considered "sick" rather than criminals. (Unless they offend in some other way)
I agree and I also think the Dutch have a pretty good system. Mere drug use isn't a disease but drug addiction is. Most people can enjoy drugs occasionally and in moderation. Most people can drink or have the occasional cigarette, joint or even harder drugs and wont get addicted. If you're using drugs to self-medicate for whatever physical or mental pain you have then you'll likely quickly find yourself in trouble and addicted and that's when it becomes an issue especially if you start stealing and hurting others to feed your addiction.
He's trying to blame Karpeles with some very circumstantial evidence, and even claims he was behind the creation of this forum (is Karpeles Satoshi now?). I can understand that there's not a lot of options for Ross when he's in jail for life without the possibility of parole and he's obviously just desperately trying anything he can to shift blame and strengthen his case so there's at least some light at the end of the tunnel for him, but trying to pass the blame on to others who are probably 100% innocent here is disturbing. Ross is making out like he just created the site as a libertarian market and quickly passed it on to somebody else, yet he was caught logged into the site as the administrator at the time of his arrest. What's his excuse for that? He was literally caught red-handed.
Karpeles was deeply involved with this forum. Receiving honorary VIP status for the resources he donated to this forum. Karpeles provided the hosting for Bitcointalk for many years.
He also audited the site after the first hack
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4405796.0Ironically the first hack resulted in the second hack and the malicious code had not been found.
True, but he didn't create the forum. Ross was even caught because he first used this forum to promote Silk Road and used contact info and handles that was eventually traced personally back to him. If he hadn't have done that then he might still be a free man. I'm not sure why he's trying to shift blame here because when it's proven that you set up the site and admit to that, and are caught running it at the very end, then that's pretty open and shut. Karpeles was initially a suspect and his ties may make for some circumstantial evidence but I think he's innocent of being involved with the running of it directly.