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didn't he try to have someone killed or is that unproven? earnest question.

Blockchain developer, scraping and smart contracts.

Not really.

A silkroad mod stole funds from a major seller, so another mod told Ross that he'd need to have the mod killed or people working for the seller would get upset, so he eventually relented and authorized hiring a hitman to solve the situation.

Problem is, every person in that story other than Ross was a federal agent 🤦

It was pure entrapment, and everyone knew it, so the "hitman" related charges were all dropped before they went to court, so it wouldn't get talked about, but they were left in the original charges so the media would see it and flip their shit, which they did.

A prescient opinion from the appeal judges: