I have nothing against this initiative by Ross. As a matter of fact, this initiative is admirable. I'd rather not look at this as about Ross Ulbricht but as an initiative to help prisoners and their families, especially for kids to be able to travel to visit their moms and dads in prison.

Anybody could start such an initiative and could receive support for what it is and what it tries to achieve and not because of who starts it.  

I know that Ross is highly a crypto person and is only using available innovations afforded to him by crypto but I personally would prefer to buy those artworks themselves than the tokens that are supposed to represent them.

You can like or hate NFTs and call it nonsense or "innovative"(and I understand the arguments of both sides), but if you think that NFTs are digital files on your hard drive, you need to do a bit of reading mate.

Because the Bitcoin "sidechains" like Sovryn and Stacks has their own token; and the vocal Bitcoin maximalists aren't fan of such tokens. Or the more likely reason: maybe Ross Ulbricht and etc just prefer to run the NFT auction on a chain that people actually use for NFTs — Ethereum. It just makes more sense if the goal was to actually pool money.

I believe the only way he can find purpose in this life is to know his CREATOR, by always reading and believing in HIS Words.
That's also the only way he can be freed from both physical and spiritual prisons and be allowed to quickly go and be what he was created to be, which is to serve the CREATOR in holiness and righteousness.

Once he sees the prison as a place of correction or punishment for wrong deeds, he will probably understand that to obtain pardon he has to repent and ask for mercy and grace from his CREATOR. HE is the only ONE that can free or allow any prisoner to be freed. Before this world was created by HIM, HE knew any of the prisoner will be sent to prison and HE allowed it for a reason.

I wish his siblings and Mother could be here so we can rightly advice her on how to get him released quickly. I actually campaigned for his released couple of years ago... which probably got me kicked out of Twitter back then. I strongly believe things can be done way better this time around. I feel disappointed sometimes that people do not realize the authority that has been given to a true believer here. Just waiting for other members to wake up and remember that we are truely on a journey out of the System/Matrix/Egypt and the ruler of the evil system is under GOD's Power and our power. We are moving to a better system with greater power.
If Ross has truely repented and is asked to be freed by the HOLY ONES, who can dare prevent him from being released?

Was Ross Ulbricht ever explicitly pro-Bitcoin? His Wikipedia page described his libertarian bend on economic theory and his belief of a commerce platform with complete anonymity. Bitcoin isn't necessary anonymous, every transaction is recorded and of public record.  Life sentence seems harsh, though the US likes to make examples out of anyone involved in drug related crimes so there isn't a chance in hell he's ever going to get out.

Free Ross Ulbricht! That being out of the way, I just can't get with the NFT craze. I don't get what's the fuss. At least he is doing it for charity so I do applaud that, but wherever I turn someone is putting out their NFT. I get people buying the Ulbricht NFT for charity and due to him having past and legal issues he has, to support his work, but why would I buy a Kardashian NFT? I'm just...I don't get it.

i think you just need to trust his words if you want to contribute on his mission. we can't tell how honest or transparent this initiative will be but if he can truly help those families, that would be great.
if this NFT collection will change the life of some of those people who will benefit from this, then, i have no problem with this Ross' idea. of course, if he may keep something for himself also, i think that's understandable.

I believe his sentence is extremely harsh and unfair, but it was his job as the site's administrator to not allow any immoral trades on his platform.

Anyway, back to the topic, why does this have to be an NFT? Why not just sell his artworks physically? If the artworks are delivered physically, what's the point of this NFT? If not, where are guarantees that they ever will?

That is my thought on it too.  The NFT craze seems to be a lot of hot air.

Regarding RU, he certainly took a big chance with SR and is paying the price, probably an excessively steep one.  He doesn't have as much of the potentially positive, obvious, motivations that Snowden or Assange has since both were/are attempting to stop abuses. Deeper down he does in terms of his devotion to "free adults being able to live their lives without being controlled" but that is a much harder sell than their motives. They have then"we're not doing this for profit" angle too.  Unless he gets a pardon, he is stuck and I doubt any of the three would be pardoned by Biden.

Bitcoin's blockchain is public, but if you do proper coin control and use coinjoins, you can increase your privacy by a lot.

As for him being pro-bitcoin, you can check out his speech on Bitcoin Miami 2021 from months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V_SkLxgQjQ

Obviously I don't know his answer, but it's just either that he "likes" NFTs(or at least think it's interesting), or the most likely reason that it's pretty easy to pool a lot of money on NFTs if you have a big name.