It might not be unfair but I think he is finally doing good in the prison last time I checked about a story about him. I don't think that if he did otherwise, I think that it will end up for him the same because this is the biggest catch of FBI in cybercrime and they want to make it look like a real success.

Have you read some of the stuff he writes about while locked up? Such a great mind wasted. There was obviously criminal stuff that happened however with all the shady stuff that came after with the powers that be; it should void everything.

He's one of the examples why Satoshi's identity should continue to be kept private. Ross received a way harsher sentence than he should've received. I believe that the intel has looked in-depth for him and this case happened so that people would be scared of trying to go off-grid with Tor and Bitcoin.

I can't say he's innocent, of course. But something is definitely weird about his case and I think it's the intel who wanted to scare people off. We have to remember that Bitcoin and Tor give us together a way towards economical freedom we've never had before, and we know how bad of an image BTC had back before 2016-2017. They tried their best to stop it, they couldn't and now they're joining us because if you can't fight it, you have to join it.

Sure they framed him. They even trapped him to do what he did and they got caught. Nevertheless he thought he was acting just like a kingpin of a drug empire would. He didn't deserve this long sentence though.

Anybody who followed the story about SilkRoad and Ross Ulbritch knows that it was not just one guy called Dread Pirate Roberts but it was more people behind that pseudonym and not just Ross.

I agree with you that administration wanted to make an example from Ross Ulbritch and send clear message to everyone who would dare to make open free marketplace like that again in future.
I also doubt in any proof claiming that he kingpin who was thinking of ordering some murders, and we know that some dirty agents got arrested in this case that makes everything dirty.

Double life sentence for Ross should be reduced but I doubt this will happen because current US administration is just a continuation of one that sentenced Ross.
I am not familiar with US law but I believe that after failed appeal only hope left for Ross is that US president pardons him, however I don't expect to see this from Biden.

Regardless of the motive for the punishment he received, we honestly see that there is some kind of legal injustice being applied. someone trying to cover up the truth and it's plain to see. but speculation alone is not enough, and we don't have much evidence of the sentence he received. who will be responsible? everyone will fear the law that is not transparent.

He was young and impulsive, so no wonder a professional agent pushed him towards trying to murder someone. I'm personally feeling sympathetic towards Ross because I don't think that running a website where adult people buy what they see fit (largely drugs), and the truly terrible stuff like child porn was NOT sold on his website. He's been in prison for too long already for something that I'm not sure deserves a prison sentence at all (not legally speaking, but morally speaking), while there are truly ridiculous cases like the Abu Ghraib prison where people were tortured, treated very inhumanely and killed, but the biggest sentence to a bunch of convicted war criminals was the main guy getting only 10 years (!) of prison and being released early after 6.5 years. So I don't see how after that, double life inprisonment + 40 years is a just sentence for Ross.

Somewhere here: https://antilop.cc/sr/

Is it true and are the sources publicly available that he ordered to kill people? We might underestimate in that regard and honestly if that is true, that's a no go. I didn't know he is that brutal assuming it is correct. Otherwise the penalty is insane.

he did order the hit as what the documentary says. i did watch almost 5 documentaries about him and silkroad, it was a great journey we know he has great views on things. i really do think he doesn't have a personality who would kill like the bosses on the Mexican cartel. he didn't even bother to see if there was news about the death of the person he ordered the hit. i do think the sentence is too much.

just so you guys know. this is his assumed account. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3905
he was traced base on his post https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/47811.msg568744#msg568744 by the guy who spent time trying to google frosty and dpr.