I don't have a problem with any of the activities apart from paying for a hit on someone. It's hard to know whether that's real without spending more time digging into this than I want to.

I know you don't want to spend time digging, but this is what I have learned in digging:

1. Ross was charged, but never tried or convicted of the contract murder charge.
2. The charge was dismissed with prejudice.
3. The primary source of evidence against Ross on the contract killing charge were the two federal agents who later were discovered to have stolen millions in bitcoin from Silk Road. Those agents were tried and convicted of this theft and are serving time.
4. The Silk Road member who was allegedly targeted by Ross does not believe it happened, or that if it did, Ross didn't do it.

For me, point #3 is sufficiently compelling to doubt it was real.