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Amazing that he can simultaneously want to close both borders to prevent drugs coming in and then pardons the architect of the biggest drug selling website of the time. I would prefer the vast majority of people in prison including Ulbricht to be rehabilitated, and not locked up, but that is some real cognitive dissonance.
It makes perfect sense when you realize that Silk Road was the killer app that launched Bitcoin and the entire Crypto universe that is currently funding Trump's lifestyle.
Now Ross can dust off that old brain wallet and live large in his stash. When he was arrested, 1 BTC was worth $200ish, it's now worth $100k. And he can make more dollars whenever he wants to by simply selling a shitty token.
Don't forget the... six(?) attempted homicides.
Oh, you mean the ones that were not charged at trial and dismissed by the court for lack of evidence years later, those six?
Edit: https://reason.com/2018/07/25/ross-ulbrichts-murder-for-hire-charges-d/
I'm sympathetic to people who were talking directly to a federal agent, except in the case of pedophilia. God forbid they just arrest the person for running an illegal business and not try to entrap them. By doing that they probably contributed to him getting the pardon in the first place.