Donny on Nostr: He built a permissionless e-commerce website (SilkRoad) that embodied all of the ...
He built a permissionless e-commerce website (SilkRoad) that embodied all of the qualities of Bitcoin that also used Bitcoin to transact. Somewhere to freely transact with anyone you see fit anywhere in the world.
I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t have heard about Bitcoin as early as I had if it wasn’t for SilkRoad or Ross.
He onboarded the first major wave of Bitcoiners to this community and I view that as doing a lot for the community. The kindling for the 🔥.
Him being imprisoned for so long, disproportionate to the ‘crimes’ committed (IMO) garnered him a lot of support from the Bitcoin community. His punishment created unity within the community. His sentence became a powerful reminder of the values many Bitcoiners stand for. Freedom, distributed power and a right to privacy and a ‘fair go’.
I believe that his indirect efforts to kickstart Bitcoin as a thing and get it into the zeitgeist combined with the unity he brought within the Bitcoin community warrants his title as someone who has done a lot in this space.
I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t have heard about Bitcoin as early as I had if it wasn’t for SilkRoad or Ross.
He onboarded the first major wave of Bitcoiners to this community and I view that as doing a lot for the community. The kindling for the 🔥.
Him being imprisoned for so long, disproportionate to the ‘crimes’ committed (IMO) garnered him a lot of support from the Bitcoin community. His punishment created unity within the community. His sentence became a powerful reminder of the values many Bitcoiners stand for. Freedom, distributed power and a right to privacy and a ‘fair go’.
I believe that his indirect efforts to kickstart Bitcoin as a thing and get it into the zeitgeist combined with the unity he brought within the Bitcoin community warrants his title as someone who has done a lot in this space.