Donald Trump took a victory lap over the weekend celebrating his January pardon of Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road ...

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.

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 ...

The Silk Road, one of the first and most notorious dark web markets, soon spiralled into a criminal empire worth millions, transforming its founder Ross Ulbricht into a ruthless cybercriminal known as ...

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 ...

Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a ... where the case was tried, called Mr. Ulbricht “the kingpin of a worldwide digital drug-trafficking enterprise” whose ...

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 ...