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 science-fiction section of a San Francisco public library. In 2015, after a ...

The president granted the unconditional release of the online drug impresario as a favor to libertarians and cryptocurrency ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence after being convicted of running an underground online marketplace that was used by ...

Donald Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, ending his life sentence for running the Silk Road marketplace using Bitcoin.