Journalist and author Nick Bilton explains the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road marketplace.

Ulbricht, who was convicted of running an anonymous online drug marketplace, became a hero to crypto-holders everywhere. What ...

Ross Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 in New York in a narcotics and money-laundering conspiracy and sentenced to life in ...

During his announcement in late 2022 that he would be once again running for president of the United States, newly-reminted ...

Once I'm feeling up to it, we'll talk again,' Ulbricht said in a video, the first time he's spoken publicly since his release ...

Ross Ulbricht, behind bars for 11 years, had been serving a double life sentence for his role in the dark web marketplace ...

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

Ross Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 for running a site on the dark web that sold drugs and other contraband items ...

Donald Trump granted me a full pardon. I was doing life without parole and I was locked up for more than 11 years. But he let ...

In 2015, a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Ulbricht to life in prison for drug trafficking, computer hacking and money ...

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 ...