The legal decision marks the end of the road for a years-long legal battle over 69,370 Bitcoins, seized in 2020 from an unidentified hacker referred to in court documents as “In ...

In May 2015, when she sentenced Ross Ulbricht for hosting an illegal drug and services marketplace called Silk Road, District Judge Katherine Forrest said Ulbricht was “no better a person than ...

Trump pardons founder of drug marketplace whose case was championed by libertarians. Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison for owning and operating Silk Road, a dark web marketplace for ...

Kate Nalepinski is a Newsweek journalist based in New York City. Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. Trump, who first proposed to pardon the Silk Road creator ...

Fresh off receiving a “full and unconditional pardon” from President Trump, sparing him from two life sentences, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was spotted in a new photograph… ...

Yes, Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road dark web marketplace The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among ...

The US is seeking the forfeiture of more than $1 billion in bitcoin stolen from the Silk Road online marketplace, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday.. In the second largest seizure in ...

President Donald Trump pardoned the founder of darknet marketplace Silk Road, he said in a post to Truth Social on Tuesday night.. Ross William Ulbricht, known online as Dread Pirate Roberts, was ...

Former President Trump on Saturday vowed to commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online drug-selling site Silk Road in an effort to win the Libertarian vote.

Some 19,800 BTC linked to Silk Road were moved to Coinbase Prime on Monday, blockchain data shows, possibly foreshadowing the U.S. government selling the seized assets. BTC dipped below $96,000 ...

The cache of Bitcoin taken from Silk Road a decade ago was worth $3.36bn when the US government seized it in late 2021.