
“If you are a tenured professor performing artificial trading experiments in a classroom and publishing your results in expensive journals, you are toasted as a genius and sometimes given prestigious prizes. If you innovate with venture capital funding and the backing of large tech firms, you are rewarded with riches and fame. But if you are a quiet geek who creates a more realistic experiment online, one that actually benefits humanity, and never sought funding from any establishment source, you are swept up in a sting operation and imprisoned for life. As for the online markets themselves, the jailing of Ross does nothing to stop them. They are now larger than ever.”
https://tucker.liberty.me/the-deeply-tragic-jailing-of-ross-ulbricht/
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