@Ross Ulbricht just got a 300 bitcoin donation. Many people speculating it was a self donation with a stash of bitcoin left over from the Silk Road days.
It doesnโt bother me if it was, but from an optics perspective he should definitely come out with a post thatโs like wow, thank you whoever did this Iโm overwhelmed with gratitude etcโฆ if youโre silent about a 30 million dollar donation it definitely looks like a self donation.
Just my two sats.
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yo thanks for scraping together the spare change from under your yacht cushions!
Perfect timing for self donation old goods after btc conference before hype ends
I have mixed feeling on this. Transparency is important, but itโs also important to remember that not only did the government steal and sell the bitcoin they seized from Silk Road, but federal agents decided to do crimes on their own and steal some for themselves. We always expected that someone would eventually come around with a donation for Ross, and itโs easy to imagine why that someone wouldnโt want to be identified, whether itโs actually him or not.
โDo Crimesโ would make a great album title
Who cares where it came from
@npub1yrf6...kaz3 the โwould you go to jail for 10 years for 300 Bitcoin?โ Posts from OPs are coming, I can sense it ๐
21 sats is around 2 cents now so you can literally zap people your two cents
He might have thabked but now you made it weird ๐.
He can buy so many interesting shitcoins with that
Definetely! ๐
Ross is the real life Andy Dufresne


If it was a self donation, someone needs to remind him that if you have 300 bitcoin that people don't already know you have, don't go moving it into an address that they know is yours. I'd HOPE he's learned a thing or two about the importance about privacy on the Internet after that whole post as altoid on Bitcointalk...
Good point
My boat lost control and ran into his address. Oops.
totally agree
big facts
if i was him i'd finish with all this fanfare and vanish to a ranch in a remote part of siberia or something with fake documents and make anonymous donations randomly to awesome stuff
well, anyway, i know Ross well enough that he likes to teach people austrian economics at least. but he will definitely have enemies who will mess with him. also i don't think he wants to be famous, he wouldn't have become a DPR if his own person was important to be recognised.
you gotta watch The Princess Bride to get that.
if someone sent me a 300 bitcoin donation nobody would ever hear from me again lol
Which address should I send to then? ๐คช
lol same
CoinJoin and vanish
bc1q66t7t5p0arkj7xzgde3y57s0seel405nqx3uyh
Just zapped you 300 Bitcoins ๐คช๐คญ
You just doxed the both of you ๐คช
Not me
i will spread the world w beautiful news
we have the bitcoins to deploy โฟitcoin โฟank and to democratize resources to all humanity
blessed
Ditto!
Planting seeds I see ๐ฑ
Ooops. I meant "sats". Stupid wallet always switches back to BTC.
Generous donation, Leo.
No takebacks.
thats some monte cristo shit that. Fair play.
Ross rn


Dude has been in prison over a decade and is probably still coming to terms with that experience. Id give the guy a break on the optics bullshit.
You just donโt understand what Iโm saying. Which is fine. It doesnโt really matter if you do or not.
I think I do. I just don't think he owes anyone an explanation after what he's been through, self donation or not.
This is about potential legal ramifications not about peopleโs opinions s
Soโฆ not about optics like you said, but legal ramifications?
Optics raise suspicion which can lead to legal ramifications the government only prosecutes selectively
My first thought was, โooh that was generous.โ
My second thought was, โooh that was smart.โ
Very interestingโฆ
Gifts from Anonymous Individuals ๐บ๐ธ
โIf you receive a gift from an anonymous individual, it is typically not taxable to you. The donor may be subject to gift tax if the amount exceeds certain thresholds. As of 2025, the annual exclusion allows individuals to give up to $19,000 per recipient per year without incurring gift tax. Gifts exceeding this limit may count against the donorโs lifetime exemption of $13.99 million, and the donor is required to file IRS Form 709 to report such gifts.โ
Source: ChatGPT
โPayment is a form of communicationโ
Jack Dorsey
Aren't most of his wallets fairly doxxed or otherwise easy to trace? What's the tx ID of the donation?
I really hope, five years from now, weโre not all saying โYeah so it turned out he was a reckless guy who couldnโt stop touching hot stoves.โ
Ross flirting with prison again ๐
They are clearly โฟ that he managed to save from the clutches of the state when he was arrested. Bravo he who eluded the authorities with part of his proceeds

