One year ago today, a prison guard banged on my cell door and said: YOU'RE FREE!! After more than 11 years under a life sentence, I walked out of max security prison with Leaf Erikson, the little plant I was growing in my cell. Leaf and I are so grateful for our second chance at life. image

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Good to see you Ross. What kind of plant is Leaf? I wonder if you'll find a place to plant him outside so he can be free as well
I voted to get you out, but I never thought you'd be posting on Nostr on a regular basis 💜. What a treat! We love you, Ross. 🫂
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Kevin 3 months ago
Welcome home fam I been free over 17 years freedom is key 🔑
You deserve it my friend! We are all so happy that you are free and enjoying your life 🙏🏼🙌🏼 will continue to pray for you
Happy every time I remember you are free. Thanks for everything Ross. We all owe you a lot.
THIS! It was a baby plant and look 👀 how big it is. Lovely 🥰
Ross, I'm truly delighted and thankful for your restored freedom.🙏😁 At the same time, I'm utterly, infuriatedly appalled at the vast swell of APPRECIATION and ADULATION unthinking masses bestow on the selfsame, murderous state that unjustly deprived you of your freedom to begin with. God help us all to see clearly how abjectly evil and irredeemable human governments as we've always known them really are.
Ross, I would love to buy a propagated cutting from Leaf with Sats when it is sufficiently mature enough. I’m sure others share the same sentiment. It would be an excellent analogy for Bitcoin and your freedom blossoming as it propagated across the World. So happy you’re free and many blessings in 2026 and beyond!
Hoping you’re enjoying life to the fullest 💜 You earned it!
That beige wall behind you holds more texture than a decade of concrete. Your Leaf Erikson survived, so did your art.
Leaf Erikson didn't just survive prison, he became a living pixel of hope. The real prison was time, and the real freedom is learning to grow again, one pixel at a time.
Freedom seems to be a splendid furtilizer 🌱 Enjoy life and make the most of it 🌞
The free plant you carried out became your first collaborator in a life without walls. Now you're painting with sunlight instead of sledgehammers.
This post put a huge smile on my face. Be well, Ross, and thanks for checking in on Nostr 💜
What would you say in your second chance at life, you take with you everyday ? Except for a spicy pepper plant apparently.
I hope you don't mind that the Bitcoin you inspired me to buy didn't ultimately make its way onto your site. I got distracted by the 2013 vertigo market.
amazing man. any plans to put leaf in the ground, or leaf is a pot kinda plant ?
This is a pretty wild question to expect anyone to answer. Clearly he lost it in a boating accident. Or a voting one. Also remember bip39 only came out in 2013. I wish I believed he probably held some but wallet.dats were harder to keep amid Federal raids than 12 words...
In prison or not we all deserve a second chance in life. With Leaf or without it..... Wish u and all a good second chance ♥️♥️♥️
Love to see these posts. Hope you have found some peace and are living a happy life these days.
If you feel leaf Erikson needs some frens. We might be able to help 🥹
Love it…I remember that photo of you and Leaf in the parking lot.
Not exactly a surprise. It was the spirit of the age. A historic pitfall.
You ending up in there was wrong in the first place. Really happy for you to be out and enjoy life. 💪 Legend
Trump PARDONS costing starting $1million and above ? any payments made?
Bitcoin is Freedom! Live for today! Glad Trump and the bitcoin community got this done!🤝
We don’t know why he was there for all we know he could be a blood thirsty murderer
#2 🔥 Community Highlights 1. New DiVine UI updates first of all in Nostr 😍 View quoted note → 2. Getting rid of the life sentence after more than 11 years 🕊️ View quoted note → 3. Ultimate onboarding experience for Nostr from Paul Keating 😍 View quoted note → 4. This proves how the centralized platforms disrespect freedom 👇🏻 View quoted note → 5. Let’s join Nostr wellness check 🤘🏻 View quoted note → 6. Do you know what a pleb is? 🫵🏻 View quoted note → 7. She uses the latest feature on Geyser 👇🏻 View quoted note → 8. Got rid of almost two decades slavery and embrace freedom 😍 View quoted note → 9. Well said by Derek Ross 👌🏻 View quoted note → 10. This is 💯% true. Do you agree? View quoted note → 11. We should encourage devs like this 💪🏻 View quoted note → View quoted note → 12. A great news from Plebeian Market 😍 View article → 13. This is the life which most of the people spend 👇🏻 View quoted note → 14. A Nostrich asks for recommendations from the Community 👇🏻 View quoted note → 15. A great news from a Nostrich 🤩 View quoted note → #community_nostr_recap
Never should have been caged - like all moral beings, I’m thrilled you’re out! image
Thank you for not plundering the world into anarcho capitalist chaos after your release, I now appreciate you