People hold signs in support of jailed darknet market Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, as former President Trump attends the Libertarian Party's national convention in Washington, D.C., May 25 ...

Ross Ulbricht, founder of the now-defunct darknet drug market previously known as Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him free and hinted at his future plans in a video posted to X.

In 2011, Ulbricht launched Silk Road, a darknet marketplace. The site allowed users to buy and sell illegal products and services, including poisons, drugs, hacking tools and stolen passports ...

Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road darknet marketplace, remains a controversial figure in cryptocurrency history. While his role in revolutionising Bitcoin’s use has long been debated ...

During his first full day as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump announced a formal pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the underground illicit drugs marketplace Silk Road.

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 ...

Anonymity thanks to Bitcoin. Ulbricht had opened Silk Road in 2011; although it was not the first such platform for transactions of any kind on the darknet, it was by far the most successful to date.

Ross Ulbricht is free, but unproven allegations against the Silk Road founder overshadow his well deserved pardon in some corners of the internet. Ross Ulbricht, sentenced to life in prison without ...

The Silk Road founder in 2015 had been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. BTC $96,456.84 + ... via his operation of the darknet Silk Road marketplace.