[mikevp]

"Ross Ulbricht, convicted of various crimes associated with launching the dark web site Silk Road, was sent away in 2015 for life without chance of parole. In his case, the government purported to believe that websites that allow people to exchange bitcoin for illegal objects are so damaging, so heinous, that justice demanded nothing less."

Uh... I believe soliciting murder of rivals may have had something do to with it. Leaving out that little ... detail... kind of casts a shadow on how much actual reasoning there might be in this reason.com article. I quit reading at this point.

[teh_infallible]

That event was orchestrated by corrupt DEA agents, and the entire conversation may have been fabricated. Ross was barred from bringing any of this evidence to his defense. The case should have been thrown out of court, IMO, due to corruption on the part of the prosecution. Two DEA agents went to prison over their handling of this case.