Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is now a ... Otherwise known by his online handle "Dread Pirate Roberts," Ulbricht was sentenced to two life sentences in 2015, plus an additional 40 years, with ...

Ulbricht, who was convicted of running an anonymous online drug marketplace, became a hero to crypto-holders everywhere. What does his pardon signal for the future of the technology?

For others, Silk Road is an ideological mission far more than it is about the goods. Dread Pirate Roberts frequently promotes libertarian political principles on his own forum, and there is a common ...

Despite calling for the death penalty for drug dealers, president Donald Trump pardoned Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht, the man behind the seminal online drug marketplace Silk Road ...

In January 2025, a claim (archived) circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was imprisoned for operating the dark web marketplace Silk Road. "I just called the ...

As the chat logs read according to the indictment, Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR), the pseudonym attributed to Ulbricht, wrote to another Silk Road user, whom he believed to be a drug kingpin capable ...

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the now-defunct darknet drug market previously known as Silk Road ... known online by his darknet moniker, "Dread Pirate Roberts," was arrested in 2013 for his ...

"Prosecutors said Ulbricht, who was known online as "Dread Pirate Roberts," founded Silk Road in January 2011.Before it was shut down by law enforcement in October 2013, it emerged as what ...

Ulbricht, who dubbed himself “Dread Pirate Roberts”, had also been accused ... The FBI described the Silk Road as a “digital bazaar for illegal goods and services” that generated hundreds ...

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 ...