ruby idiot railed posted:

dude started a book club for von mises writing

why would you put him in charge of teaching ged classes

DNova posted:

oh come on

he would have to have a shitload of secret bitcoins somewhere and hire some mercenaries from africa or something because no charter company pilot is going to fly to a prison to effect an escape. also they would all probably be shot to death very early in the attempt.

e: yes I just listened to the mercenary episode of snap judgement

unpacked robinhood posted:

yeah the internet guy who roleplayed being a badass outlaw on the internet must have some very capable friends willing to break him out

Alan Smithee posted:

but it's not in anyone's rational self interest to actually try....

Beast of Bourbon posted:

isn't the whole murder for hire charge a little specious because the person never existed?

Beast of Bourbon posted:

isn't the whole murder for hire charge a little specious because the person never existed?

Beast of Bourbon posted:

isn't the whole murder for hire charge a little specious because the person never existed?

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

DNova posted:

he can still probably teach basic subjects like math and english and how to calculate sha-256 hashes by hand

he wouldn't be in charge obviously but I think he could be put into a position to be useful to others that's all

QuarkJets posted:

he's a bitcoiner what makes you think that he's qualified to teach anything

JamesieAB posted:

_{unless it's by me}

atomicthumbs posted:

atomicthumbs posted:

trucutru posted:

They calculated that an attacker can clog the network at will for a day with 4,000 dollars worth of transactions. Luckily, the banks an other enemies of bitcoin do not have that kind of money,

jony ive aces posted:

that would be Good For Bitcoin though because it would mean someone buying $4k/day worth

next stop: moon

Heresiarch posted:

holy poo poo

did you do this

Heresiarch posted:

anyone who doesn't understand that image: you are lucky and you should press no further

Wheany posted:

This place is not a place of honor.
No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.
Nothing valued is here.
Sending this message was important to us.
We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

quote:

Doesn’t she know we’re trying to change the world out here? If she were any sort of Bitcoiner she would’ve been throwing in some newlywed pussy for a Bitcoin deal sweetener for a plane ticket.

Heresiarch posted:

anyone who doesn't understand that image: you are lucky and you should press no further

JamesieAB posted:

Ross Ulbricht, he is our Socrates, our Oscar Wilde, our Rosa Parks.

So he's a dead Greek/Irish gay black Woman?

unpacked robinhood posted:

yeah the internet guy who roleplayed being a badass outlaw on the internet must have some very capable friends willing to break him out

JamesieAB posted:

Ross Ulbricht, he is our Socrates, our Oscar Wilde, our Rosa Parks.

So he's a dead Greek/Irish gay black Woman?

Dex posted:

the closest thing libertarians have to a philosopher, a poet or a civil rights activist is a rich kid who wrote lovely php and sold drugs

makes sense tbh, not going to read the article though

Barnyard Protein posted:

let me ask you something. you ever sucked dick for bitcoin?

JamesieAB posted:

Ross Ulbricht, he is our Socrates, our Oscar Wilde, our Rosa Parks.

So he's a dead Greek/Irish gay black Woman?

JamesieAB posted:

Ah yes, two great African Americans.

DNova posted:

oh come on

he would have to have a shitload of secret bitcoins somewhere and hire some mercenaries from africa or something because no charter company pilot is going to fly to a prison to effect an escape. also they would all probably be shot to death very early in the attempt.

e: yes I just listened to the mercenary episode of snap judgement

shadok posted:

reminder that the guy who proposed this helicopter scheme, the guy who spent years guiding DPR and egging him on, the guy who urged him to send hit men to deal with problem vendors, and the only guy on silk road actually good at opsec is still out there somewhere rich and untroubled by law enforcement.

he won't be coming to rescue DPR from supermax, because he's not stupid but if he decided to have a go he could probably come closer than any of those fedora-doffing couch potatoes on bitcointalk.

JamesieAB posted:

Ross Ulbricht, he is our Socrates, our Oscar Wilde, our Rosa Parks.

So he's a dead Greek/Irish gay black Woman?

quote:

On the first day of the trial, 26-year old Max Dickstein had come dressed in a black ninja costume while holding a poster reading "The Chosen One," featuring a picture of Ross Ulbricht and the Bitcoin logo. Midway through the trial, I bumped into Dickstein again as he smoked a cigarette on the court’s eighth floor balcony with two friends.

...

I had dinner with Dickstein in Chinatown, where he lives. He's an "out-there" libertarian, he explained. His father is a currency trader, and Dickstein, who describes himself as an "unrepentant one-percenter," dropped out of college to trade currency as well. He got his father interested in Bitcoin, which he saw "as an alternative to gold," he told me.

Dickstein wouldn't say on the record whether he'd made buys on Silk Road or other "darknet" markets, but his knowledge of them was extensive. Silk Road had far more traffic than its competitors and had features other markets didn't have, including the ability to "hedge" Bitcoin, which essentially froze the value of the trade at the moment the buyer and seller agreed on it. That protected either side from losing money due to Bitcoin volatility.

...

He was even more enthusiastic about the idea of Karpeles getting in trouble. Dickstein was certain that the collapse of Mt. Gox had been straight-up theft by Karpeles, to the tune of $400 million worth of bitcoins—including $16,000 of Dickstein's own.

I asked him how he knew the two other men who'd been smoking on the balcony with him. They met at a 9/11 Truth rally, he explained.

"Building Seven, at least, was brought down by explosives," he said. He had been living near the site at the time with his parents, when just barely a teenager.

I said nothing, but Dickstein could read my skepticism. "Like I said, I'm out there," he told me, smiling broadly.

FMguru posted:

the point is not that ross has already paid for a daring helicopter escape, the point is that he is on the record as considering ways to escape from a minimum/medium security facility coming from long before he was caught for doing anything. thats going to hurt him when it comes to plead that he should be sent to some not-too-unpleasant club fed minsec joint. i think it already hurt him at sentencing because it cut against his "im not a vicious drug kingpin im just a goofball libertarian dreamer who let his computer site get out of hand" narrative that he and his family were trying to sell (well that and the whole murder-for-hire-including-bystanders thing).

ross getting life wasnt too surprising because of the total lack of mitigating circumstances. theres a whole list of reasons to beg the court for leniency but none of them applied to him. he wasnt in desperate financial straits, he didnt have a tough upbringing, he wasnt in an abusive relationship, he didnt have mental health problems, he wasnt one of those follower types who fell in with a bad crowd, he wasnt remorseful, nobody forced him to do it - the best case his family could come up with for clemency was "you cant send nice clean polite softspoken ross away like hes some kind of tattooed urban thug predator real criminal". there are a lot of hard-luck cases who stand before courts and beg mercy. ross by contrast had every advantage imaginable (stable family, upper middle class upbringing, fancy college degree, in demand technical skills, etc) and the judge seemed really pissed off that he took all those advantages and decided to embark on a life of crime, and then have the balls to ask for leniency because he hadnt really done anything wrong.