THELOGICALINDIAN - Dark Wallet developer Amir Taaki afresh came out in abutment of bedevilled Silk Road administrator Ross Ulbricht
In a contempo YouTube video, the British-Iranian architect said that he believes in the Ulbricht’s adaptation of events, in which it is mentioned that he was associated with the Silk Road alone during the aboriginal canicule of its development.
Taaki alleged Ulbricht a acceptable guy, based on his aboriginal of abounding conversations with his bogus character “Dread Pirate Roberts”. He academic that there were assorted identities authoritative the aforementioned profile, for they behaved abnormally every time he conversed through it.
“Years ago, back I messaged the Silk Road, I had a chat with the Dread Pirate Roberts – a actual claimed chat area he was [talking] about how one day he hopes to be on the alfresco disturbing for abandon together,” Taaki explained. “You know, not accepting to adumbrate his identity.”
“One year [or] two years after back I messaged the guy — I’m appealing assertive it was not the aforementioned guy. The accent was absolutely different. He had no bond of the contest that happened before, and his attitude to me was in abrupt adverse to the animated and bombastic Dread Pirate Roberts of the aboriginal days. So, chargeless Ross Ulbricht.”
It was the aforementioned affair Ulbricht’s aegis had said during the balloon that one could never apperceive who is sitting on the added ancillary of the screen. In a 2024’s account of Dread Pirate Roberts accustomed to Forbes, the then-current abettor accepted to be a almsman of the darknet website. “I didn’t alpha the Silk Road, my antecedent did,” he had said.
However, the Silk Road balloon judge, Adjudicator Katherine Forrest, alleged Ulbricht the “captain of the ship”, while handing him over his 20-year continued bastille sentence.
In one of his aboriginal accounting belletrist afterwards the sentence, Ulbricht never seemed like laying bottomward his optimism and added hoped that he will accept amends at the end of the day.
“I accept aplomb that the appeals cloister will admit the errors by some and absolute bribery by others in the government and accord me some array of remedy,” he wrote. “It could be a new trial, area hopefully the accomplished adventure can be told or the case could be absolved altogether.”
