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.

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 ...

Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road website ... 30 years with ownership increasingly out of reach The most iconic song ever written about every state Denmark in ‘crisis mode’ after ...

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 ...

One such move includes the pardoning of criminal entrepreneur Ross Ulbricht, whom the president promised to free from his lifetime of incarceration during a campaign event courting the Libertarian ...

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According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, a wildfire broke out around 10:53 a.m. near Castaic Lake in northern LA County and burned 8,096 acres (32.8㎢) by 3:56 p.m. In ...

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.

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road, the very first dark-web drug-trading network, certainly was. When users signed up for the website, which went live in 2011, they were greeted by a mess ...

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 ...

In Truth Social post, the president claimed that the same individuals that convicted Ulbricht were "the same lunatics" that were involved in the weaponization against him. Ross Ulbricht ...