Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht to Bitcoiners: ‘Freedom is Worth the Struggle’

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht has a message for the crypto community: if you want to maintain your freedom, you must remain unified and decentralized, and you must be prepared for a struggle.In a heart-felt keynote speech closing out Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas on Thursday, Ulbricht, addressing the public in-person for the first time since being released from prison in January, shared a story to illustrate his three guiding principles — freedom, decentralization and unity.Ulbricht explained that, in the early days of the Silk Road, he wanted to grow hallucinogenic mushrooms to stock the darknet marketplace with, so he rented a remote cabin. The cabin, he said, was infested with wasps source: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/05/29/silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht-to-bitcoiners-freedom-is-worth-the-struggle