Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison.
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According to a report this week, Ross Ulbricht, who is serving a life sentence for running the black-market website Silk Road, is auctioning off his creations to raise money for charity.
The SuperRare platform will be the place to bid on the 10 non-fungible token created by Ulbricht. The high bid as of late Friday was over a million dollars, based on ether's price of $4,233.
The Ross Ulbricht Genesis Collection includes works he produced in his early childhood as well as his time in prison.
In a post this week, Ulbricht said that he was told to sell his art through the digital format after he was arrested.
Through my art, I was able to connect with those in the free world. He wrote that the isolation he felt was counterbalanced by it.
The proceeds from the NFT auction will be donated to charity, according to Ulbricht's mother.
Silk Road was shut down after it became known as an online drug marketplace.
The FreeRossDAO is a group of investors who want to raise funds to buy the Genesis Collection and protest what they see as injustice in the American prison system.
The treasury's balance was more than $4 million as of late Friday, and the DOA's efforts to free Ulbricht from his prison sentence is at the top of the list.
Business Insider has an original article.
