Quote from: icopress on March 23, 2021, 08:20:09 PM

Quote from: rdbase on March 18, 2021, 02:48:56 PM

So this kid who hacked into all those twitter accounts to cyphen out $173k worth in bitcoins and comprimising a massive social media platform costing them millions in a PR mess only gets 3 years in prison while Dread pirate roberts gets life?

You forget that the US justice system treats ordinary proceedings differently and proceedings that are of a political nature. And the Ross Ulbricht case was one of those times when the government wanted to show strength in the fight against drugs. Although in most cases such a "war on drugs" does not give visible results, I believe this high-profile case promised someone high-ranking positions (in the sense that, covering one channel for the distribution of prohibited substances, another immediately appears). So Ross, by and large, is just a hostage of the situation.

Truth told there Icopress!

Just look at the recent release of Julian Assange and how he basically had to plea bargain to gain his release from the US government's laws imposed upon him over a decade ago back in 2012.

Remember that he and Ulbricht were the first ones to create websites that accepted bitcoin.

Although Julian's plight was against Visa, Mastercard and paypal stopped accepting payments to the wikileaks site:
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/24/06/39498400/heres-how-much-bitcoin-has-surged-since-julian-assanges-wikileaks-took-refuge-in-the-crypt

Now his family are raising funds to him via bitcoin:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/06/25/julian-assanges-family-is-raising-funds-for-him-with-bitcoin