The true reason for the arrest of the Silk Road founder actually comes from a piece of fantasy writing by a liberal, which is a social experiment to de-stigmatize drugs.

Is Bitcoin a symbol of the triumph of liberalism? Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark web Silk Road, ushered in the miracle of his life this year, not because he once became rich at the age of twenty-four by setting up the Silk Road dark web, which provides a platform for liberal enthusiasts to use bitcoin to buy and sell drugs, but because he was arrested and sentenced to two life sentences in prison and actually had the opportunity to get amnesty. Trump is probably also the first president in history to both fight drugs (fentanyl) and amnesty liberal advocates, liberal advocates believe that people have the right to buy drugs, the government and the central government cannot take away this right, and Trump's position is completely contradictory, but the reason why Trump is Trump is that he can rationalize all contradictions, Ross Ulbricht just happened to hit good luck at the time of the US election, became Trump's best pawn to win over liberals, and regained freedom.

Many people compare Ross Ulbricht to the recently arrested Taiwanese alternative light Lin Ruixiu, the two have a high degree of similarity, Ross Ulbricht and Lin Ruixiang are both genius students, both from not particularly wealthy families, relying on excellent grades to get scholarships and qualify, but also choose a crooked path that does not meet social expectations: drug trafficking, and both were young when they set up the website, Ross Ulbricht set up Silk Road was only twenty-four years old at the time, the same age as Lin Ruixiang, who is now arrested.

Bitcoin used to be seen as a symbol of anarchism or liberalism, a decentralized currency launched in rebellion against central totalitarianism. After the birth of Bitcoin, all sorts of shady businesses ran on its anonymity, all in the name of freedom. What is little known is that the original prototype of the website that uses Bitcoin as a drug trade does not come from Ross Ulbricht, but a fantasy article published on the Bitcointalk forum, the forum user Teppy wrote an essay about the future application scenarios of "Bitcoin", using its anonymity and privacy to allow drug dealers to open a heroin store, and this illusory narrative actually "inspired" Ross Ulbricht to start the Silk Road. It is equivalent to inspiring Lin Ruixiang later, is all this the scourge of liberalism? For Teppy's personal story, read more about Blockwork.

The disruptive innovation experiment of Bitcoin can help in the de-stigmatization of drugs.

On June 9, 2010, Teppy (Andrew Tepper) wrote a fantasy piece on the Bitcoin forum Bitcointalk, where he briefly described how opening a heroin shop could work. Teppy is said to be the first game site founder to accept Bitcoin as currency, and his A Tale In The Dessert multi-role-playing game site accepted Bitcoin even before that store that accepted Bitcoin for pizza.

Teppy wrote that as a libertarian, what he likes most about Bitcoin is its potential to bring about truly disruptive effects. He believes that the war on drugs is one of the most harmful things to society in American history, so he wants to conduct an experiment to see how a heroin shop can operate business accepting Bitcoin, and in the process of this experiment, bring an end to government drug prohibition regulations.

The operation of a heroin store is as follows: a drug dealer establishes a website that accepts Bitcoin for the purchase of heroin. After the buyer places an order, they pay with Bitcoin and provide a physical delivery address. The drug dealer then sends the order to the buyer and sends another identical order to a random address. ( Note: Intentionally confusing the prosecution's direction of investigation ) In this case, since random heroin packages are regularly delivered across the United States, simply receiving one package does not mean that someone at that address originally ordered the drugs. This allows for reasonable denial.

Of course, the post office can find the package and notify the police, who may then monitor the recipient's mailbox to see who received the mail, and then obtain a search warrant to search the entire house to see if the package has been opened to confirm purchase intent, but Teppy thought about this, and he believes that for buyers, the focus is not to open any package that they suspect may contain heroin until they want to smoke, and only when the package is opened and the contents are smoked, they face the crisis of being charged with cocaine.

"Can anyone find a way to attack this store?" Teppy asked on the Bitcointalk forum.

The "heroin shop" plan has some obvious loopholes: the police can track the delivery locations of packages, making it a useful and effective strategy to catch drug dealers on the dark web. However, according to Teppy, if this shop is located in a big city like New York, it is almost impossible to get caught.

Moreover, as early as 2010, law enforcement agencies were also able to easily analyze and intercept packages, track all the materials used, and ultimately find the upstream suppliers and the drug dealers themselves.

The fantastical heroin shop inspired Ubrih.

Teppy's fantasy essay is widely known for its connection to Ulbricht's case, who used the Bitcointalk forum under the pseudonym "altoid" to promote his then-fledged dark web Silk Road.

On January 29, 2011, Ross Ulbricht, using the alias altoid, commented on Teppy's post: This is a great thread, does anyone know about Silk Road? It's like an anonymous Amazon site, but it doesn't sell heroin, it sells other things, let me know your thoughts.

The FBI ultimately connected Ulbricht with altoid through multiple means, including discovering that Ulbricht used a personal email to recruit a development team to assist in building the Silk Road website, and Ross Ulbricht's posts also led to the Bitcointalk forum receiving the first court subpoena in history.

On the internet, understanding people's true intentions is always a difficult task, but a hypothetical fantasy article by Teppy has surprisingly come true, and it even inspired Ulbricht. Bitcointalk forum user Timo Y commented in October 2013, just a week after Ulbricht was arrested in the science fiction section of a library in San Francisco, noting that U.S. law enforcement agencies specifically mentioned this post in Ulbricht's indictment.

Timo Y stated that the Bitcointalk forum was once filled with dreamers discussing various possibilities, and it felt like having a conversation about the novels of William Gibson (the author of ( Cyber Punk) discussing how to achieve some impossible scenarios, but he expressed his surprise that fantasy literature would turn into real-world crime methods.

Ross Ulbricht denied that he was altoid, that he was Dread Pirate Roberts and Frosty, and that he had bought homicide. When many news media in Taiwan are ridiculing Ross Ulbricht and Lin Ruixiang as smart people, confused, know how to set up a dark web but do not know how to use pseudonyms or head money laundering, the author has a different idea, serious criminals have to challenge the system, will they not understand the risks of drug trafficking? Because of their high advocacy of liberalism or dark economy, they (Shadow Economy) to carry out an experiment that can completely subvert the bottom line of human morality, in this experiment, they have made a lot of money, but also let them enjoy a higher level of pleasure, maybe they themselves do not touch drugs at all, but the pleasure of conquest and destruction far exceeds the profit of drug trafficking itself. And the same pleasure happens to other felons, who don't care about being caught. Moreover, the establishment of a high-risk game such as dark web drug trafficking is not so easy to find like-minded accomplices, and this death game is almost always blacked out by others, and it is not unreasonable for these two geniuses to choose to commit crimes in the way of lone birds.

If Bitcoin is merely an ultimate social experiment testing human nature, then Satoshi Nakamoto is the greatest mastermind and villain of this century, remaining anonymous behind the scenes. If Satoshi Nakamoto were still alive, he would be watching this farce of human self-destruction with cold eyes.

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