US President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for operating an online black market, which facilitated over $200 million in illegal sales using Bitcoin.

Ross Ulbricht, recently pardoned by Trump, lost $12 million while trying to provide liquidity on Pump.fun, mistakenly setting ...

Ulbricht's story has long been a lightning rod for discussions around sentencing reform, the ethics of decentralized ...

Trump sold a series of digital trading cards, and along with his sons launched a crypto trading platform with Steve Witkoff, ...

Ross Ulbricht, 40, was arrested in 2013 and jailed in 2015 after a jury found his site facilitated the sale of illicit drugs using cryptocurrency. He was serving two life terms plus 40 years for ...

Ross Ulbricht, the dark-web marketplace founder pardoned by United States President Donald Trump, has spoken about his release from prison for the first time. Ulbricht, 40, was sentenced to two ...

The appointment brings a veteran of a major credit card network player to the company’s board at a time when cryptocurrency firms are looking to establish higher trust and credibility.

U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of dark web marketplace Silk Road. Rating: True (About this rating?) In January 2025, a claim (archived) circulated that U.S ...

One such move includes the pardoning of criminal entrepreneur Ross Ulbricht, whom the president promised to free from his lifetime of incarceration during a campaign event courting the Libertarian ...

Ross Ulbricht's life sentence for Silk Road, his regrets, and Trump's controversial pardon. Learn about his rise and fall.

Standing on stage at the Bitcoin 2024 Conference in Nashville last summer, Donald Trump knew exactly how to get the crowd on his side. After promising to make the US the “crypto capital of the planet” ...