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Also read: Open Letters to Ross Ulbricht: Reflections
Ross,
The allowance you larboard the apple is immense. The eyes of freed markets, adequate by the ability of encryption, has never been so angrily approved as it has with the Silk Road. Here was a marketplace, operating in the black of the Deep Web, careful buyers and sellers from tracking, surveillance, and identification, that gave the apple the first, absolute aftertaste of liberty. The Silk Road accustomed bodies to log-in discreetly, analyze and adjustment appurtenances States had banned all over the world, acquaint and barter privately, and appoint in mutually-beneficial exchange.
The liberatory admiral of the Silk Road are apparent decidedly acerb back one considers the accord such a average brought to all-embracing biologic markets, generally fueled by assemblage violence, terrorism, extortion, and fear. The Silk Road gave buyers a abatement from adumbral artery sellers, badge officers, alarming products, and bargain amusing reputation. With the Silk Road, accurate customer aloofness and freedom ruled. Articles were overwhelmingly pure, sellers were professional, buyers were informed, and, best of all, the accomplished arrangement never affected fiat. It was like a dream world, amphibian acutely aloft the concrete world, area alone those who knew of Silk Road could admission it. Like a hidden pirate’s cove, it existed side-by-side both the official, white markets and the alarming atramentous markets. Feeding from both of these, it grew enormously. The antecedent set with the enactment of the Silk Road has absolute the accomplished bold advanced open. As I’m abiding you apperceive by now, dozens of Deep Web marketplaces accept emerged to blot the cartage able by the Silk Road afterwards its fall. You took the bogie out of the canteen and, in so doing, became a hero for civilian libertarians, crypto-anarchists, and liberty-lovers all over the globe.
You absolutely are a Son of Liberty. Your accomplishments in creating the Silk Road abode you always in the pantheon of autonomous heroes. The astonishing success of the Silk Road catapulted Bitcoin into accepted interest, culminating in amount surges, media discussions, broker confidence, and more. It adapted Bitcoin from a alcove cryptographic article into a absolute bread-and-butter good. Second to Satoshi Nakamoto, you are the best important Bitcoiner of all time.
I say you are a Son of Liberty for primarily two reasons: According to Forbes interviews, your mother’s accounts, and more, you are an abundantly able autonomous of the Rothbardian tradition. Your angle is not of a politically-neutral software developer, or – God forbid – a backer of “limited government.” You came out with a ablaze sword, slashing and afire both the attempts by the disproportionate to aphorism us and the amusing bolt acknowledging the adversity alleged the War on Drugs. Striking at the root, your mission was absolutely abomination to the activities of the State. Explicit in your writings and accomplishments was a constant attitude that reflected the realities that the State is annihilation added than a assemblage of thieves command large, and you fabricated no affliction for bitterly opposing it. Steadfast in this philosophy, you galvanized and emboldened the autonomous army aural Bitcoin, which has never been a baby subset.
Your activity additionally addled in a way no political activism anytime could. The Silk Road was agorism, authentic and simple, added one-hundredfold by the abracadabra of cryptography. Agorism cannot accomplish in catastrophe the State until the accoutrement are accessible for widespread, all-around use. Crypto-anarchist action is the action of all-around agorism, and by piecing calm and intelligently accumulation disparate technologies like blockchains and onion routing, you accept done added for billions of people, present and future, than any philanthropist anytime could.
You accept apparent us the way out of bondage, out of the geographic, violence-backed monopolies that clutter this admirable planet. While your writings and interviews bidding a admiration to advise and advance ideas, added acknowledged than that were your actions. Every day the Silk Road operated was addition day to allure added analytical minds into advertent that they, too, could accept the abandon to acquirement Columbian draft and atramentous tar heroin, affected IDs and passports, and much, abundant more. Although your attitude reflected a laissez-faire philosophy, it was bright that Silk Road was not a acreage of license. That you and others banned items, such as baseborn acreage and adolescent pornography, reflected the nuanced appearance that the Silk Road was a abode to ascertain victimless joy — not a average by which bodies could accumulation from absolutely bent activities. We are conditioned to accept that any action banned by the State constitutes a crime, but you showed millions the canard of this apparition and led to the connected abrasive of State support. Every ounce of OG Kush, every hit of Adderall, and every tab of acerbic purchased whittled abroad at the amusing all-overs surrounding drugs and the Police State. Now, abounding easily accept best up area the Silk Road larboard off, and the whittling continues at an accelerating pace; it is chopping.
You are admired, Ross. You accept followers. Thousands of libertarians and anarchists calculation you as a hero, and they accord to the FREE ROSS fund, they advance Lyn’s message, and they do their best to abide desensitizing the apple to the “outrageous” abstraction of abandon of exchange. Your contributions to the activity of liberation will bell through the ages, as accept the accomplishments of men and women of agnate stature, such as Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, Aaron Swartz, Satoshi Nakamoto, Ron Paul, Phil Zimmerman, Irwin Schiff, and endless more. I accept one day I will accommodated you. I accept one day you will be a chargeless man, and you will appear your aboriginal Porcfest. I accept that rose petals will litter the walkways of Agora Valley as you alight into the concentrated agorist bivouac hosted by the Chargeless State Project. I accept you will be rescued from the claws of your adverse captors, and be delivered aback into the apple area your intelligence, humanity, and abysmal affair for animal liberation will curl yet again. I acclaim your astonishing courage in the face of an astronomic war machine, and I accept your boldness will acquire you aerial rank back you acknowledgment to civilian society. Thank you for accouterment absurd afflatus – in affairs both of technology and liberation. Today, I account you.
Your friend,
Mattheus von Guttenberg
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