Not sure why everyone is celebrating Ross Ulbricht

Just wanted to make sure everyone knew that he tried to set up a hit on people he thought were going to expose info about his site. Regardless of your feelings about illicit marketplaces, crypto, legalization of drugs, etc, generally hiring a hitman is kind of not great.

Check the wiki entry for more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Court_proceedings

And there's a really good doc from a YouTuber about it:
https://youtu.be/GpMP6Nh3FvU?si=yrezCakAGp0UTruD

EDIT:

For those saying the murder for hire thing was debunked/he wasn't convicted of it, here's a passage from page 33 of the 2016 appellate decision upholding his conviction:

"At the sentencing hearing, the district court resolved several disputed issues of fact. For example, because Ulbricht contested his responsibility for the five commissioned murders for hire, the district court found by a preponderance of the evidence that Ulbricht did in fact commission the murders, believing that they would be carried out. The district court characterized the evidence of the murders for hire, which included Ulbricht’s journal, chats with other Silk Road users, and the evidence showing that Ulbricht actually paid a total of $650,000 in Bitcoins for the killings, as “ample and unambiguous.” App’x 1465."

https://web.archive.org/web/20221213001237/https://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/ULBRICHT-ca2-20170531.pdf