US President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for operating an online black market, which facilitated over $200 million in illegal sales using Bitcoin.

Last September, I spent an evening at a meetup near Atlanta titled “Bitcoin Enters the Mainstream Political Arena.” It was the first time that the group of mostly white, mostly male, mostly ...

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the now-defunct darknet drug market previously known as Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him free and hinted at what he has planned for his ...

Trump was jeered throughout his speech, but he was also widely cheered at one point: when he promised to free the libertarian Ron Paul supporter Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road who had ...

Ross Ulbricht, the dark-web marketplace founder pardoned by United States President Donald Trump, has spoken about his release from prison for the first time. Ulbricht, 40, was sentenced to two ...

What Was the Silk Road? The Silk Road was an online marketplace launched in 2011 by Ross Ulbricht, operating under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts." It was hosted on the dark web, a part of ...

She had an answer: Free Ross Ulbricht, a Bitcoin pioneer who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for creating Silk Road, the world’s largest online drug marketplace. Mr.

People supporting Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht’s efforts to reintegrate ... Originally from Austin, Texas, Ulbricht was in San Francisco before his 2013 arrest. His mother reportedly moved ...

In January 2025, a claim (archived) circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was imprisoned for operating the dark web marketplace Silk Road. "I just called the ...

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