I don’t know a ton about Ross Ulbricht. 

Reasonable friends of mine outside of crypto are appalled, noting that he attempted murder.  

Reasonable friends of mine within crypto are celebrating.

I get the divisiveness of the dark money aspect here (the for and against). But is the murder part true?

playing /bracket, assisting /bracky, talking /greatbooks

Maybe a convenient incidental. With someone like this who creates a novel situation like this I’m of the mind it makes sense hire those people. Criminals elsewhere are often quite clever, might as well leverage that