Trump Frees Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison
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The article reports that President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark‑web marketplace, after more than a decade of imprisonment. It recounts Silk Road’s role in facilitating online drug sales and other illicit services via Bitcoin, outlines Ulbricht’s convictions and life sentence, and notes past allegations of murder-for-hire that influenced previous clemency decisions. The shift is framed within Trump’s growing alignment with libertarian-leaning cryptocurrency communities.
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