Welcome to the What Bit Bitcoin Did Podcast.

Hi there, welcome to the What Bit coin did podcast.

This week I have a follow-up interview with Lynn Albrick, the mother of Ross Albrick, who is imprisoned for life for his

role in the creation of the Silk Road website.

If you're new to my podcast and have not heard my previous interview with Lynn, then I suggest

you check it out before you listen to this

one as it covers a number of the complexities and issues around the case and I will

share a link for that interview in the show notes. At the time of our first interview the

family and Ross were waiting on their petition to the Supreme Court to have their

case reviewed which was their final option within the courts. Sadly the

Supreme Court has declined their petition and they are now

down to it the only option which is a presidential pardon which there is a petition

for currently out on change.org. This interview was also important for me personally.

I've talked before about how I used a similar website to buy a treatment for my mother, which

is unavailable in the UK when she was dying from cancer and I feel like Ross paved

the way for that to happen and it's something I'm personally grateful for but also the

closer I've got to the case and the more I've read about the case, the more I feel that it's an injustice that somebody is going to be spending the rest of their life in prison for what is essentially a nonviolent crime.

Also, I can really feel Lynn's pain

as a mother losing her son to the prison system.

She often talks about grief, almost like a death,

and I can feel and I can witness her pain and I feel a lot of empathy for

and in the short amount of time I've got to know her I can see how difficult it

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