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

it is valid to say that someone sent messages about murder, but one needs to exculpate everyone with that capacity to send messages, of which there are multiple bad faith actors, beyond a doubt.