{"id":16458,"date":"2025-01-23T11:32:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=16458"},"modified":"2025-01-23T11:32:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:32:50","slug":"silk-road-mastermind-ross-ulbricht-seen-leaving-prison-holding-a-small-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=16458","title":{"rendered":"Silk Road Mastermind Ross Ulbricht Seen Leaving Prison Holding a Small Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"incArticle\">\n<p>Silk Street founder Ross Ulbricht is free after spending over a decade behind bars on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/news\/releases\/ross-ulbricht-aka-dread-pirate-roberts-sentenced-life-federal-prison-creating\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">drug and cybercrime charges<\/a> \u2014 and he is taking his little jail plant with him.<\/p>\n<p>After newly-minted president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2025\/1\/21\/24349080\/trump-pardon-silk-road-dark-web-drug-marketplace-ross-ulbricht\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">Donald Trump pardoned Ulbricht<\/a> from the life sentence he&#8217;d been serving, the previous darknet kingpin was seen in a photograph <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DFIlG2cuI2p\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">posted by his advocates<\/a> during which he was proven\u00a0leaving jail sporting a gray sweatsuit and a smile.<\/p>\n<p>In that very same picture the 40-year-old who&#8217;d been often called &#8220;Dread Pirate Roberts&#8221; on the darkish net market he based was additionally seen holding his results in a netted bag and a small potted plant \u2014 a human contact to Ulbricht&#8217;s larger-than-life story that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-commentary\/silk-road-ross-ulbricht-undeserved-life-sentence-prison-1235013443\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">transcends left-right politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/founder-silk-road-dictating-tweets-073100686.html\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">starting a Twitter account in 2018<\/a> that concerned him <a href=\"https:\/\/freeross.org\/tweets-from-ross\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">dictating tweets to outsiders<\/a>\u00a0through telephone name, Ulbricht would periodically relay missives from his imprisoned life to his devoted followers. In a single such <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RealRossU\/status\/1512095229528129544\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">communique from 2022<\/a>, he shared an animation he&#8217;d made that featured a small houseplant that resembles the one he was seen leaving jail with.<\/p>\n<p>As he defined within the submit, Ulbricht wouldn&#8217;t find yourself having the ability to see the animation \u2014 which he <a href=\"https:\/\/scarce.city\/auctions\/grow-in-the-dark\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">ended up selling<\/a> for a whopping 11.6 Bitcoin, which was value roughly $1.2 million on the time of its sale \u2014 himself.<\/p>\n<p>On a couple of event in 2018 and 2019, the Silk Street mastermind additionally <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RealRossU\/status\/1080879512546533376\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">made reference<\/a> on his Twitter account to an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RealRossU\/status\/1063839505860317185\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">apple plant<\/a> he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RealRossU\/status\/1055148356807217153\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">grew in wet tissue<\/a> from leftover seeds. He named the plant &#8220;SHUbert&#8221; after the &#8220;Particular Housing Unit&#8221; the place he claimed to have served over 100 days in solitary confinement \u2014 although sadly, that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RealRossU\/status\/1080879512546533376\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">plant didn&#8217;t make it out with him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of it is a crypto-infused story, it would not be full with out somebody <a href=\"https:\/\/top100token.com\/address\/FiSFFXRQUDiXhSz5MXhYKSFTBvxE3emNZXzgPCPkpump\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">making a meme coin<\/a> for the plant known as, fittingly, $ROSSPLANT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Extra on the Trump crypto sphere:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/trump-fake-barron-meme-coin\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\"><em>Gullible Trump Supporters Lose Millions on Fake $BARRON Meme Coin<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/silk-road-ross-ulbricht-plant\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silk Street founder Ross Ulbricht is free after spending over a decade behind bars on drug and cybercrime charges \u2014 and he is taking his little jail plant with him. After newly-minted president Donald Trump pardoned Ulbricht from the life sentence he&#8217;d been serving, the previous darknet kingpin was seen in a photograph posted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4128,2857,12010,3589,1249,3917,12004,12003,184,12005],"class_list":["post-16458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-holding","tag-leaving","tag-mastermind","tag-plant","tag-prison","tag-road","tag-ross","tag-silk","tag-small","tag-ulbricht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}