Penn State graduate Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison for running Silk Road, a drug marketplace on the dark web that conducted more than US$200 million in illegal drugs trade using bitcoin ...

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 ...

The Silk Road founder could be one of the world's richest people if he gets his bitcoin back from the U.S government.

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

President Trump's decision to issue a pardon to Ulbricht came after ongoing pressure from his mother, and from Bitcoin-loving ...

Libertarian activists, who generally oppose criminal drug policies, argued the government overreached in building its case ...

While Trump has vowed to "take down the cartels, just as we took down the ISIS caliphate," history has shown that's easier ...

Ross Ulbricht’s story has become a cornerstone of crypto history. To many veterans, he represents the raw, unfiltered ethos of Bitcoin’s early days: radical ...

Ulbricht operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road when law enforcement arrested him. The pardon fulfills ...

President Donald Trump didn't mention bitcoin (BTC) during his inaugural speech and crypto was absent from his first batch of executive orders, but Polymarket bettors are confident a pardon for ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht reached out from prison on social media to warn crypto users about potentially investing in any memecoins bearing his name. In a Jan. 19 X post, Ulbricht said there ...

In addition to many other things he has promised to do on his first day in office, Donald Trump has said he will free Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who is serving a life sentence in federal ...