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

President Donald Trump has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs. Ulbricht had been sentenced to life in prison in 2015. Trump posted ...

Ulbricht, who was convicted of running an anonymous online drug marketplace, became a hero to crypto-holders everywhere. What ...

But Trump didn’t stop there. On Tuesday, he pardoned Ross Ulbricht, a bitcoin pioneer who was sentenced to life in prison for creating and running Silk Road, a black market on the dark web that sold ...

Allies of the online drug bazaar’s founder made the case to the president that the two men shared enemies.

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was given two life sentences in 2015, thanks President Donald Trump for giving him a ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was serving a double life sentence before being pardoned by President Donald Trump.

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.

Ulbricht's story has long been a lightning rod for discussions around sentencing reform, the ethics of decentralized ...

Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, a first of its kind in the modern era, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him ...