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

Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, a first of its kind in the modern era, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him free and hinted at what he has planned for his future.

Donald Trump pardoned the creator of the world’s first dark-web drug market, who is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some ...

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 ...

Despite calling for the death penalty for drug dealers, president Donald Trump pardoned Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht, the man behind the seminal online drug marketplace Silk Road ...

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Ross Ulbricht has his freedom. After serving nearly 12 years in federal prison for running a notorious online drugs bazaar, Ulbricht—who went by the name Dread Pirate Roberts when he was a crime ...

Ross Ulbricht was arrested at 29. Now, he's 40. He faces a double life sentence plus 40 years with no possibility of parole for creating the Silk Road, a dark web drug marketplace that facilitated ...

Languages: English. Kentucky Congressional Representative Thomas Massie went on Tim Pool's Timcast IRL podcast to share a letter written to him from now-pardoned Ross Ulbricht that moved him to tears.

Ross Ulbricht ... have become more prevalent. Ulbricht was sentenced to life without parole. Ulbricht's laptop, from which he did much of the site's maintenance and creation, is held as an ...

Ross Ulbricht ... have become more prevalent. Ulbricht was sentenced to life without parole. Ulbricht's laptop, from which he did much of the site's maintenance and creation, is held as ...