by The Silkroad Foundation
2024: Ross Turns 40 in Prison… The State of the World
Last week, Ross Ulbricht turned 40 years old, sitting at USP Tucson as a prisoner, serving out his 240 year sentence, for creating an e-Commerce website… The very next day, Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years, for stealing Billions of dollars from people, committing fraud on a massive scale, and supporting criminals worldwide.
Just 2 weeks before, it was announced that Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are being investigated for the exact same charges that Ross received, because millions worldwide use Facebook to sell illicit substances. Obviously Mark will line somebody’s pockets and never see the inside of a jail cell, though.
Just a week after Ross’s birthday, the US government moved $2B in funds they seized from the Silkroad, including sending 2,000 Bitcoins straight to someone’s Coinbase wallet. Anyone want to take a guess at what they’re going to spend it on? Weapons & Drugs or Healthcare & Roads?
Meanwhile, presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has said that he will pardon Ross on day 1 if he is elected, and multiple states have decriminalized most, if not all, of the substances that were being exchanged on the Silkroad…
Even the most anti-drug, anti-psychedelic, sobriety-only person must admit at this point, there is no legal, moral, or societal justification for keeping Ross Ulbricht locked in a cage.
Of course, anyone who has studied the case and Ross’s trial already knows that he was found guilty and sentenced as an example, to keep others from trying to create ways of doing commerce outside of the Corporate-Banking world.
Q1 2024: $SILKROAD Launches, Rugpulls, Community Rebuilds and Soars!
At the beginning of February, the $SILKROAD token on Solana launched, marketed as a celebration of the launch of the original Silkroad, and putting out a timeline of donations to the Ulbricht family. The developer almost immediately rug-pulled (stole the money), and disappeared. A dedicated group of us who had come in to support the #FreeRoss movement did a “ community takeover,” becoming the Silkroad Foundation.
Shortly after this rebirth, we connected with liberty activist Kenny Palurintano, who was researching micro-cap revolutionary projects for the Cult DAO to potentially invest in, and became the bridge between this new community dedicated to freeing Ross, and the already existing movement. Since then, a lot has happened:
By reaching out to Lyn, Ross’s mother, a public Solana donation address was added to FreeRoss.org
- The wallet has received a total of $1500 in donations in 9 days.Wednesday, March 27th, we hosted a Twitter Space for Ross’s 40th Birthday. Over 1000 people tuned in live, and the recording is available on the LBRY blockchain as well.
- Special guest journalists & experts on the case, some of whom were at the trial, including Derrick Broze, Josh Sigurdson, Sterlin Lujan, and Joel Valenzuela.
- We had performances of four different songs about Ross.
— Tatiana Moroz & John Bush performed their #FreeRoss songs
— Illuminati Congo debuted & released his new #FreeRos song, commissioned by the Silkroad Foundation, featuring Sterlin Lujan.[1][2][3]
— Jordan Page debuted his un-released #FreeRoss song.
- We ran contests during the space, giving away over 250,000 tokens & an NFT.On March 28th, we launched our Lost Camel Society NFTs.
- 50% of minting proceeds go to freeross.org and 50% go to our Foundation.
- So far, we have donated 5.4 $SOL to the FreeRoss wallet.[1][2][3]
- Over 1,000,000 tokens have been burnt since the NFT launch (0.25% of supply)For the days around Ross’s birthday, we partnered with the DAWGcoin community, to help us raid Twitter/X, and get #FreeRoss up on trending. (+30% followers in a week)
We donated 2 SNS (Solana Name Service) URLs to the #FreeRoss wallet
We’ve partnered with DeFiTimeZ, a free multi-language magazine focused on DeFi & Blockchain.
- 200,000,000 $DFTZ tokens donated as the rewards pool for our NFT staking.
- Coverage & promotion of Ross’s case, and the #FreeRoss movement.We’ve received an investment from the Cult DAO, and will relaunch on their upcoming L2: Modulus
Q2-Q4 2024: What’s Next for the Silkroad Foundation?
Moving forward into the rest of 2024, and the future, the priorities for our project are quite clear. We are here to #FreeRoss, and along the way we are here to support his family, spread awareness about his case and the violent fraud of the “Drug War,” and ultimately to help empower the masses to lift themselves up from Global Authoritarianism & Financial Servitude.
Our roadmap will be released in the first half of April, and will lay out all of our plans for the “Lost Camel Society” NFTs, the re-launch of our token as a fully-functional DAO, billboards and other real-world promoting, etc.
End the Drug War
Free All Victimless “Criminals”
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