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 ...

Ulbricht's conviction has been wiped out but his 144,000 Bitcoins are long gone.

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On Wednesday, the price of bitcoin jumped to more than $104,000, following Donald Trump’s announcement of a presidential ...

President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the drug marketplace Silk Road who is revered by many ...

Cryptocurrency enthusiasts welcomed President Trump’s pardoning of Ross Ulbricht, who had been serving a life sentence ...

Ulbricht, 40, was about 10 years into his life sentence for helming an online black market where drug dealers, money ...

Crypto was absent from the first batch of President Trump's executive orders and pardons, but the market is confident it will ...

President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym ...

The move fulfilled a long-sought dream of the overlapping libertarian and crypto communities, who Trump courted on the ...

Ross Ulbricht’s story has become a cornerstone of crypto history. To many veterans, he represents the raw, unfiltered ethos of Bitcoin’s early days: radical ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht reportedly still has about $47 million in Bitcoin that was not seized by the US governement.