Silk Street founder Ross Ulbricht is free after spending over a decade behind bars on drug and cybercrime charges — and he is taking his little jail plant with him.
After newly-minted president Donald Trump pardoned Ulbricht from the life sentence he’d been serving, the previous darknet kingpin was seen in a photograph posted by his advocates during which he was proven leaving jail sporting a gray sweatsuit and a smile.
In that very same picture the 40-year-old who’d been often called “Dread Pirate Roberts” on the darkish net market he based was additionally seen holding his results in a netted bag and a small potted plant — a human contact to Ulbricht’s larger-than-life story that transcends left-right politics.
Talking of that plant, evidently Ulbricht made references to a inexperienced thumb just a few instances through the time he served on his double life sentences, with an extra 40 years tacked on besides.
After starting a Twitter account in 2018 that concerned him dictating tweets to outsiders through telephone name, Ulbricht would periodically relay missives from his imprisoned life to his devoted followers. In a single such communique from 2022, he shared an animation he’d made that featured a small houseplant that resembles the one he was seen leaving jail with.
As he defined within the submit, Ulbricht wouldn’t find yourself having the ability to see the animation — which he ended up selling for a whopping 11.6 Bitcoin, which was value roughly $1.2 million on the time of its sale — himself.
On a couple of event in 2018 and 2019, the Silk Street mastermind additionally made reference on his Twitter account to an apple plant he grew in wet tissue from leftover seeds. He named the plant “SHUbert” after the “Particular Housing Unit” the place he claimed to have served over 100 days in solitary confinement — although sadly, that plant didn’t make it out with him.
As a result of it is a crypto-infused story, it would not be full with out somebody making a meme coin for the plant known as, fittingly, $ROSSPLANT.
Extra on the Trump crypto sphere: Gullible Trump Supporters Lose Millions on Fake $BARRON Meme Coin
