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

The United States president pardoned the founder of the underground illicit drugs marketplace, as part of a raft of sweeping announcements during the first two days of his new administration.

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is free after President Donald Trump pardoned him. But who is he and what did he do?

WASHINGTON — An Austin native who was sentenced to life in prison for founding a dark web marketplace that specialized in ...

President Donald Trump Tuesday pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of dark-web drug marketplace Silk Road, 10 years into his ...

But the Silk Road, one of the first and most notorious dark web markets, soon spiralled into a criminal empire worth millions ...

Donald Trump pardons founder of Silk Road dark web drug marketplace - US president has granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht ...

Ulbricht, who used the nom de plume “Dread Pirate Roberts” to hide his identity, was sentenced in 2015 to life in prison.

Ulbricht operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road when law enforcement arrested him. The pardon fulfills ...

Once a skeptic who said a few years ago that bitcoin “seems like a scam,” Trump has embraced digital currencies with a ...