Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, received 300 BTC in June 2025, worth over $31 million. Blockchain analysis tied the donation to old AlphaBay darknet ...

The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among other products.

Ulbricht did not immediately respond to a request for comment made through the Free Ross campaign that advocated for his pardon. AlphaBay, similar to Ulbricht’s Silk Road, was a ...

Ross Ulbricht didn’t deserve to die in prison. Thanks to Trump he won’t. The prosecution’s tactics and the integrity of its investigation were problematic — to say the least.

Crypto crime lord Ross Ulbricht gets a pardon—but his fortune is gone after the U.S. auctioned off his Bitcoins in 2014 for just $334 each ...

The FBI Declassified: Dangerous Journey on the Silk Road 43:25. President Trump announced Tuesday that he has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website that the FBI ...

Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the website Silk Road, in a photograph presented as an exhibit during his 2015 criminal trial in New York federal court (US Attorney’s Office for the Southern ...

In January 2025, a claim circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was imprisoned for operating the dark web marketplace Silk Road.. The rumor was true. On Jan ...