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Why Ross Ulbricht Is A Political Prisoner, An Exclusive Interview With His Mother

“This was a political statement. It was an endorsement of their drug war. And the drug war is a failure,” Lyn Ulbricht, mother of Ross Ulbricht, tells MintPress News.

June 09th, 2015

By Derrick Broze

Why Ross Ulbricht Is A Political Prisoner, An Exclusive Interview With His Mother

NEW YORK --- Lyn Ulbricht has become figure known to tens of thousands of people around the world. She’s well-known member of the American Libertarian movement, and a fixture in the bitcoin and “Crypto-Anarchist” worlds. She’s also the mother of Ross Ulbricht, the convicted founder of the Silk Road online black-marketplace, and the

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‘Silk Road Shared Responsibility’: Documentarian Questions Search, Seizure In Digital Age

Federal prosecutors are seeking a sentence “substantially above” the 20-year mandatory minimum that United States District Judge Katherine Forrest is looking to impose on Ulbricht, 31, who admitted to creating Silk Road, but denied any wrongdoing.

May 29th, 2015

By Mint Press News Desk

‘Silk Road Shared Responsibility’: Documentarian Questions Search, Seizure In Digital Age

RT reports: The accused creator of the Silk Road online drug bazaar, which enabled over $200 million in anonymous online sales, is to be sentenced on Friday. The director of a documentary about Ross Ulbricht told RT why his case "impacts the average citizen." Federal

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Feds Show Hypocrisy In Charges Against Silk Road Founder

Federal prosecutors have charged the founder of Silk Road with crimes that the government itself is guilty of.

January 22nd, 2015

By Carey Wedler

Feds Show Hypocrisy In Charges Against Silk Road Founder

(ANTIMEDIA) The Silk Road trial is filled with twists,

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Carey Wedler is the editor-in-chief of Anti-Media. Shortly after graduating from UCLA with a degree in History, she got her start making Youtube videos, which led her to Anti-Media. Besides editing, she also covers foreign policy, the war on drugs, and solution-oriented developments. Her work has been published in Newsweek, Ron Paul’s Liberty Report, and the Foundation for Economic Education. Contact Carey via email: carey.wedler@theantimedia.org. Support her on Patreon: patreon.com/CareyWedler

The Bitcoin Hype Has Been Spent, So What’s Next?

It may be the case that the cryptocurrency is most valuable as a development platform for other products — products that could ultimately revolutionize the ways we think about and handle data.

November 24th, 2014

By Frederick Reese @FrederickReese

The U.S. Marshals Service announced last Monday that it will be auctioning off 50,000 of the bitcoins it seized from the accounts of Ross William Ulbricht. Ulbricht, who operated under the pseudonym the Dread Pirate Roberts, allegedly operated the first iteration of Silk Road, the

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Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese

A Guilty Verdict In Silk Road Case Could Doom Internet Freedoms

In the case against Ross Ulbricht, one man’s personal freedom is at stake and maybe even Internet freedom as we know it.

July 15th, 2014

By Katie Rucke @katierucke

Ross Ulbricht, the 30-year-old American who allegedly created the online black marketplace Silk Road, was unsuccessful last week in convincing a federal judge that he is not the notorious hacker Dread Pirate Roberts and did not conspire to deal illegal narcotics and launder money, sparking concern among privacy advocates that Internet freedoms may

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Katie Rucke

Katie Rucke is a MintPress staff writer and investigative report specializing in the war on drugs, criminal justice, marijuana legislation, education and watchdog investigations as well as whistle-blowers. Her investigations related to the coverage of the 2010 Toyota recall scandal, and coverage of the trials of Anonymous hacker and proclaimed activist Jeremy Hammond as well as Bradley Manning have received international acclaim. Rucke has been recommended by the Wikileaks organization as a trusted journalist in 2013. Rucke has also written pieces for Yahoo! and various community magazines. Follow Katie on Twitter: @katierucke

Seizure Of Bitcoins In Silk Road Case Begs Challenges With Civil Assets Forfeiture

U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken approved the largest single seizure of bitcoins in history on Jan. 15.

January 20th, 2014

By Frederick Reese @FrederickReese

Seizure Of Bitcoins In Silk Road Case Begs Challenges With Civil Assets Forfeiture

U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken approved the largest single seizure of bitcoins in history on Jan. 15, with almost 30,000 units of the cryptocurrency forfeited under the federal seizure of the Silk Road website and the

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Silk Road Case Sets Precedent For Total Government Control Of Currency

The pursuit of justice in the United States has never been easy — or cheap.

Why Ross Ulbricht Is A Political Prisoner, An Exclusive Interview With His Mother

‘Silk Road Shared Responsibility’: Documentarian Questions Search, Seizure In Digital Age