on Friday, a Federal district court in Manhattan sentenced 31-year-old Ross Ulbricht, and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Ulbricht was convicted of drug trafficking, conspiracy to commit money laundering and hacking activities. The sentence included two consecutive life terms and 20, 15 and 5 years of imprisonment on individual episodes.
 

the day before the verdict Ulbricht sent judge Katherine Forrest (Katherine Forrest) a letter in which he repented in creating the site and called it "naive and too expensive idea."
 

"Silk Road was conceived to give people the freedom to make one's own choices, follow your own happiness. After Silk Road I realized that if you give people freedom, you can't know what will they do to her", - he wrote. the
 

three years of work on Silk Road it has concluded more than 1 500 000 anonymous transactions. The site has become one of the biggest platforms for trading in drugs, weapons and hiring customized killers. Transactions on Silk Road was Bitcoin cryptocurrency with the Commission that brought him to the founder of a multimillion dollar income.