In 2015, a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Ulbricht to life in prison for drug trafficking, computer hacking and money laundering.

Until, of course, in 2013 the Silk Road was shut down by FBI agents and Mr Ulbricht, then 29 years old, was arrested in the ...

President Donald Trump granted a pardon to Silk Road marketplace founder Ross Ulbricht, a promise he made to the ...

President Trump announced Tuesday night that he had granted a “full and unconditional” pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of ...

President Trump's decision to issue a pardon to Ulbricht came after ongoing pressure from his mother, and from Bitcoin-loving ...

While Trump has vowed to "take down the cartels, just as we took down the ISIS caliphate," history has shown that's easier ...

Penn State graduate Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison for running Silk Road, a drug marketplace on the dark web that conducted more than US$200 million in illegal drugs trade using bitcoin ...

But the Silk Road, one of the first and most notorious dark web markets, soon spiralled into a criminal empire worth millions ...

President Donald Trump didn't mention bitcoin (BTC) during his inaugural speech and crypto was absent from his first batch of executive orders, but Polymarket bettors are confident a pardon for ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht reached out from prison on social media to warn crypto users about potentially investing in any memecoins bearing his name. In a Jan. 19 X post, Ulbricht said there ...

In addition to many other things he has promised to do on his first day in office, Donald Trump has said he will free Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who is serving a life sentence in federal ...

Last year on May 25, Donald Trump vowed to commute the sentence of early Bitcoin pioneer and Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht to time served if elected president. As we all know, Trump won the election ...