President Donald Trump’s pardon of Ross Ulbricht has divided opinion, with some people condemning it as a swing from one ...

It was just after midnight when a phone call from an unknown number woke Dorine Núñez Ávila.

President Trump said Tuesday night that he had given a “full and unconditional” pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an online black market which enabled users to buy and sell ...

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 Ulbricht, in his first remarks after being pardoned fully and unconditionally by President Donald Trump on January 21, 2025, has expressed his gratitude.

Ulbricht, known by the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts,” founded Silk Road in 2011. Its services were available globally and could be accessed via a Tor browser, which protects users’ anonymity.

The Silk Road, one of the first and most notorious dark web markets, soon spiralled into a criminal empire worth millions, transforming its founder Ross Ulbricht into a ruthless cybercriminal known as ...

As the name of his Tremolo Productions suggests, music is Neville’s primary focus and one of his Academy Award-nominated films — The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble ...

The FBI described the Silk Road as a “digital bazaar for illegal goods and services” that generated hundreds of millions of dollars in sales, as well as commissions in Bitcoin. The Silk Road ...

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 science-fiction section of a San Francisco public library. In 2015, after a ...

United States President Donald Trump declared a pardon for the founder of the underground illicit drugs marketplace Silk Road as part of a raft of sweeping announcements during the first two days ...

President Donald Trump pardoned the founder of darknet marketplace Silk Road, he said in a post to Truth Social on Tuesday night. Ross William Ulbricht, known online as Dread Pirate Roberts ...