The mastermind behind the “Silk Road” online marketplace that facilitated millions of dollars of drug sales has been given a full and unconditional pardon by US President Donald Trump.

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 ...

Ross Ulbricht had been sentenced to life in prison in 2015 after a high-profile prosecution, which Trump called "ridiculous" ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is free after President Donald Trump pardoned him. But who is he and what did he do?

Console Wars’ duo Jonah Tulis and Blake J. Harris have conducted more than 60 hours of interviews with Ulbricht, who became a ...

Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road ...

Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and ...

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

Ulbricht, 40, had been serving a life sentence on federal drug trafficking charges for setting up the illegal website.

On his second day back in office, President Donald Trump issued a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of dark-web ...

The move fulfilled a long-sought dream of the overlapping libertarian and crypto communities, who Trump courted on the ...

Ross Ulbricht created Silk Road in 2011 — a darknet marketplace that allowed illegal drugs to be purchased anonymously with Bitcoin. After 11 years behind bars, Ross Ulbricht is a free man.