Donald Trump pledged to cement the US as the bitcoin mining capital of the planet. The president’s sweeping tariffs stand to ...

An auction of Ross Ulbricht’s personal items raised over $1.8M in Bitcoin as collectors bid for pieces of Silk Road history.

Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, received 300 BTC in June 2025, worth over $31 million. Blockchain analysis tied the ...

A $31 million Bitcoin donation to Ross Ulbricht links back to Alphabay vendors. Ulbricht’s trial accusations included murder-for-hire plots, none of which were confirmed. A recent blockchain ...

A crypto wallet tied to the defunct darknet market Alphabay was behind a 300 Bitcoin donation to Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, Chainalysis told WIRED.

Ross Ulbricht potentially received 300 Bitcoin from an old dark web market called AlphaBay, per Chainalysis reports. Here are the details.

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge declined a U.S. request to extradite a B.C. man accused of selling drugs on online ...

Ross Ulbricht’s recent receipt of 300 Bitcoin is from “questionable sources,” but it’s unlikely to be a case where he donated it to himself, says blockchain researcher ZachXBT. Ulbricht, who founded ...

Bitcoin, once described as “rat poison squared” by Warren Buffett, has gone mainstream thanks, in part, to Trump’s embrace.

Accounts associated with the now-defunct dark web marketplace AlphaBay were able to connect a $31 million Bitcoin gift to Ross Ulbricht, the pardoned creator of Silk Road bazaar. This donation, ...

Silk Road provided an early use case for bitcoin—the untraceable currency flowed through the platform and allowed the sale of illicit goods to flourish internationally. It didn’t last long.