Donald Trump took a victory lap over the weekend celebrating his January pardon of Ross Ulbricht, founder of the “Silk Road” ...

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the now-defunct darknet drug market previously known as Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him free and hinted at what he has planned for his ...

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 ...

Trump was jeered throughout his speech, but he was also widely cheered at one point: when he promised to free the libertarian Ron Paul supporter Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road who had ...

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 ...

What Was the Silk Road? The Silk Road was an online marketplace launched in 2011 by Ross Ulbricht, operating under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts." It was hosted on the dark web, a part of ...

She had an answer: Free Ross Ulbricht, a Bitcoin pioneer who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for creating Silk Road, the world’s largest online drug marketplace. Mr.

In January 2025, a claim (archived) circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was imprisoned for operating the dark web marketplace Silk Road. "I just called the ...

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road, the very first dark-web drug-trading network, certainly was. When users signed up for the website, which went live in 2011, they were greeted by a mess ...

In Truth Social post, the president claimed that the same individuals that convicted Ulbricht were "the same lunatics" that were involved in the weaponization against him. Ross Ulbricht ...