Ross Ulbricht, recently pardoned by Trump, lost $12 million while trying to provide liquidity on Pump.fun, mistakenly setting ...

Ulbricht, who was convicted of running an anonymous online drug marketplace, became a hero to crypto-holders everywhere. What ...

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

But 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 ...

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 science-fiction section of a San Francisco public library. In 2015, after a ...

Once I'm feeling up to it, we'll talk again,' Ulbricht said in a video, the first time he's spoken publicly since his release.

Despite calling for the death penalty for drug dealers, president Donald Trump pardoned Ross "Dread Pirate ... According to Arkham, Ulbricht still holds roughly $200,000 worth of the coin ...

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 23: David Sacks, "AI and Crypto Czar", speaks to President Trump as he signs a series of executive ...

“Yes, illegal activity took place there, but come on,” the presidential hopeful wrote as he denounced Ulbricht’s draconian sentence.