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Satoshi created Bitcoin.
Ross Ulbricht turned it into currency when Bitcoin was just $0.50:
• Create Silk Road with over 100,000 users.
• Total goods/services traded: ~$200 million.
• Earned over $13 million in Bitcoin.
• Get arrested: October 1, 2013.
• Get Sentence: life without parole + 40 years .
• Get pardon: January 21, 2025, by President Trump.
• Today: A free man living his life freely.
That’s not a small experiment. That’s a marketplace that moved real economic value using Bitcoin before almost anyone else even had a wallet.
One man. One idea. One platform.
The government's response was maximum punishment. Over a decade in prison.
The same system that locked him up had to let him go.
This is what happens when an idea is bigger than the man who started it.