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.

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

He went on, “I think it was a shrewd move to pardon Ross sort of all on his own, after Trump did the mass pardons. It kind of gives the gesture more gravitas.” In 2011, Ulbricht, an Eagle ...

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 was thrown in prison for longer than most rapists and murderers, which was extraordinary given this was just a digital marketplace.” He emphasized the troubling nature of Ulbricht's ...

Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht took to social media Thursday night to issue his first statement after being granted a full pardon Wednesday, calling U.S. President Donald Trump “a man of 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 ...