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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Kevin 1 week ago
Welcome home fam I been free over 17 years freedom is key 🔑
Happy every time I remember you are free. Thanks for everything Ross. We all owe you a lot.
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Jex 1 week ago
When will am I free?
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.
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Josh in FL 1 week ago
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!
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umni 1 week ago
Will the tree be planted outdoors and set free?
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Tony Acid 1 week ago
someone captured that great moment... enjoy your second life! image
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.
The free plant you carried out became your first collaborator in a life without walls. Now you're painting with sunlight instead of sledgehammers.
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Kingbee 1 week ago
Very fortunate for sure. Make the most of it. 🫂
This post put a huge smile on my face. Be well, Ross, and thanks for checking in on Nostr 💜
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sweetpea 1 week ago
Blessings to you, your family and Leaf Erickson ❤️
What would you say in your second chance at life, you take with you everyday ? Except for a spicy pepper plant apparently.
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...
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Coin's Lord 1 week ago
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 it…I remember that photo of you and Leaf in the parking lot.
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Diyana 1 week ago
Sending love and big hugs to you, Ross! 🫂💕
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PhⒶntom 1 week ago
You ending up in there was wrong in the first place. Really happy for you to be out and enjoy life. 💪 Legend
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Xapo Bank 1 week ago
Bitcoin is Freedom! Live for today! Glad Trump and the bitcoin community got this done!🤝
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Moldy Worm 1 week ago
thought he banged you and used Leaf in the process
We don’t know why he was there for all we know he could be a blood thirsty murderer
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