Silk Road (2021)

Nick Robinson: Ross Ulbricht

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• Ross Ulbricht : I knew the state might try to impede it. But if we never try for fear of retribution, then we've already lost, you know?

• Ross Ulbricht : Silk road is about something much bigger than thumbing your nose at the man. It's about taking back our Liberty. And as corny as it sounds, I just wanna look back at my life and know that I did something that helped people.

• Ross Ulbricht : Until 1967, it was illegal for a white man to marry a black woman in the state of Virginia.

• Ross Ulbricht : Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to change the world.

• Ross Ulbricht : [about TOR]  Essentially, it's a digital invisibility cloak.

• Ross Ulbricht : [about Bitcoin]  It's like tokens in an arcade. You go into the arcade, you buy the tokens, but nobody knows which tokens you used.

• Ross Ulbricht : I've decided to keep a journal about my experience running the site. I imagine that someday I may have a story written about my life and it would be a good idea to keep a detailed account of it.

• Ross Ulbricht : Stop funding the state with your tax dollars and direct your productive energies towards the black markets.

• Ross Ulbricht : I just made 75 grand in bitcoin in the last 90 minutes, babe. Sooner or later someone's gonna come knocking.

• Ross Ulbricht : Silk road is going to become a phenomenon. And at least one person will tell me about it unknowing that I was its creator.

• Ross Ulbricht : Julia, look, the average silk road user is college educated, has a laptop and has access to broadband. More than that, there are seller reviews. Baby, buying drugs off of my site is safer than buying 'em on the street.

• Ross Ulbricht : Julia, it's brilliant. Look, that way, I can pass it along to somebody else. This thing is gonna outlive all of us.

  Julia : This isn't a movie, Ross. I'm gonna go to bed.

• Ross Ulbricht : Look, I am running a $50 million company, operating in 17 different countries with exactly one employee who just dropped off the face of the earth.

• Ross Ulbricht : The way I see it, we are all players in something that has grown beyond any of us. Rarely do I lift my head long enough to take in just how amazing all of this is.

• Ross Ulbricht : I have no one to share my thoughts with in physical space.

• Ross Ulbricht : But I learned that when you give people freedom, you don't know what they'll do with it.

• Ross Ulbricht : The war on drugs is a farce.

• Ross Ulbricht : This is my community. and I care about it.