Programmer Ross Ulbricht is serving a double-life sentence for starting The Silk Road, a website on the dark web that traded guns and drugs for crypto. Prosecutors also have evidence of six murder-for-hire schemes that he has not been charged with. More than any other single person including Satoshi Nakamoto, Ulbricht is responsible for the widespread adoption of cryptocurrency. And, according to his Twitter feed, he is also learning how to rock.
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