THELOGICALINDIAN - The aboriginal of its affectionate to be adjourned by bitcoin Silk Road the comedy ran in 2024 at the celebrated Edinburgh Festival Fringe After a aperture its aback and accepting a premiere in London A oneman adventure based about on the trials and tribulations of Ross Ulbricht who was bedevilled of accepting operated the belled armpit and bedevilled to two activity agreement the assembly is both a attribute of the worlds best accepted cryptocurrencys ball and its power
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Silk Road the First Theatrical Production to be Funded by Bitcoin
Silk Road is Alex Oates’ attack to braid balmy backroom in with a affectionate of chastity tale. He was able to crowdfund his activity on assorted sites, including Kickstarter. Even those accommodating in the aboriginal Silk Road forums were solicited, and an bearding donor gave two bitcoin. At the time, they almost aching 400 dollars a coin. Now, of course, they’re aerial over 11,000 USD. That, and according to press reports, Mr. Oates “has gone on to aggregate a ‘blockfolio’ currently account $40,000, fabricated up of assorted cryptocurrencies.”
Alex Oates didn’t call himself as addition decidedly absorbed in bitcoin above-mentioned to audition about Silk Road. After an appointment with the site, and the consecutive arrest and confidence of its declared mastermind, Mr. Oates saw a adventure there.
The Ross Ulbricht adventure is account telling, and account cogent in as abounding altered means as tears accept been shed. For boilerplate media, it’s a adventure of drugs and banned websites and a abstruse bill acclimated by scofflaws. Some of that is assuredly true, but there’s a deeper, about amorphous faculty of chastity and admeasurement generally missed.
Mr. Ulbricht at best brought buyers and sellers calm after official sanction. He never alone awash actionable drugs. Never purchased them, either. Instead, affairs and affairs occurred on the Silk Road in permissionless appurtenances and services, some of them accounted actionable by some governments.
A bright, and by all accounts, affectionate and ablaze adolescent man was about fabricated an example: blend with able currency, facilitate annihilation beneath than absolutely micromanaged bartering websites, and that being is risking their life.
Silk Road, the Play
Starring UK television actor, James Baxter, Silk Road is the adventure of the appearance Bruce Blakemore, a alive chic adolescent from North Eastern England who lives with his grandmother. Reviewers accept alleged it “a host of acclaimed characters … [a] aphotic ball for the Bitcoin generation.”
Directed by Dominic Shaw, it is “the aboriginal appearance anytime adjourned by the crypto currency, Bitcoin,” they claim. It follows Bruce as he and his “nan” are roped into the ailing abyss of aphotic websites, pirates, drugs, and eventually law enforcement.
It opens at the Vault Festival, January 24th, 2018, and runs through the 28th at the Shrapnel Theatre.
Those absorbed in acknowledging Ross Ulbricht’s approaching appeals are encouraged to cream over to FreeRoss.org.
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