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

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

The pardon of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht by US President Donald Trump marks a historic event for crypto, but its impact ...

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 ...

In playing up the image of Ulbricht as a comrade in victimization, Trump was also borrowing the chief refrain of the libertarian crusade to secure Ulbricht’s release: With a suspect DEA agent in ...

Lyn (L) and Kirk Ulbricht, parents of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, talk with reporters outside the Federal Courthouse on May 29, 2015 in New York. (DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images) ...

In 2015, with his sentencing hearing looming, Ross Ulbricht begged for a glimmer of hope. Today, at age 40, he is free. On ...

Ross Ulbricht, now in his late 30s, has spent more than a decade behind bars. During this time, he has maintained his innocence regarding some of the charges against him and expressed regret for ...

Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the website Silk Road, appears in an undated photograph made from his computer and presented as an exhibit during his 2015 criminal trial in New York federal court ...

Ross Ulbricht, founder of the now-defunct darknet drug market previously known as Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him free and hinted at his future plans in a video posted to X.

The family of Ross Ulbricht on Friday said the founder of the illicit online marketplace Silk Road, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for extensive online criminal activity, would be ...