Donald Trump took a victory lap over the weekend celebrating his January pardon of Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road ...

President Trump did not pardon or commute the prison sentence of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, despite his promise on the campaign trail to commute his sentence on "day one." ...

(Ars thoroughly documented the Silk Road saga here.) Trump had pledged at the Libertarian National Convention to set Ulbricht free while on the campaign trail, agreeing with supporters who believe ...

President Donald Trump announced a “full and unconditional pardon” of Silk Road drug marketplace founder Ross Ulbricht, who was serving two life sentences in prison for charges including narcotics ...

In its nearly three years of existence, Silk Road, which operated in a shady corner ... Mr. Trump embraced Mr. Ulbricht’s cause on the campaign trail, first in a speech at a libertarian event ...

the founder of the anonymous marketplace website Silk Road, which the president promised to do "on Day 1" while on the campaign trail. "I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbri[c]ht to let ...

In 2015, a federal judge sentenced Ulbricht to life in prison for operating Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” But last May, while on the 2024 campaign trail, Trump promised ...

the founder of dark-web marketplace Silk Road. Trump had pledged to free Ulbricht as part of a raft of promises made to the cryptocurrency community while on the campaign trail. The president ...

In addition, the SEC – under acting Chairperson Mark Uyeda – has announced the creation of a new crypto task force charged ...

the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency and libertarian worlds. In doing so, Trump fulfilled a promise that he made repeatedly on the campaign trail as ...