He went on, “I think it was a shrewd move to pardon Ross sort of all ... In 2015, Ulbricht, who went by the dark-Web sobriquet Dread Pirate Roberts—a reference to a shifting character in ...

Ulbricht used the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" and was sentenced to life in federal prison in 2015. Ross Ulbricht, the "Dread Pirate Roberts" of the internet, founded and operated the darknet ...

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

Pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht appears to be honoring a tradition in the world of crypto: losing money on doomed ...

Ross Ulbricht, also known as "Dread Pirate Roberts," operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road between 2011 and 2013, when law enforcement shut the site down and arrested him at a ...

Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 on charges related to his website, where users could buy and sell drugs and other illegal goods with bitcoin.

Ross Ulbricht has his freedom. After serving nearly 12 years in federal prison for running a notorious online drugs bazaar, Ulbricht—who went by the name Dread Pirate Roberts when he was a crime ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he issued a pardon for Ross Ulbricht ... In 2011, Ulbricht—who used the moniker “Dread Pirate Roberts”—founded Silk Road, an anonymous e-commerce ...

Former President Donald Trump's recent pardon of Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road founder, has reignited debates on digital privacy, criminal justice, and internet governance. Discover the case, ...

Ross,” he wrote, misspelling Ulbricht's last name. Ulbricht, who used the nom de plume “Dread Pirate Roberts” to hide his identity, was sentenced in 2015 to life in prison for founding and ...

But Ulbricht's defenders say that the Dread Pirate Roberts who was chatting with the corrupt undercover agent who set up a fake hit wasn't actually Ross Ulbricht. After all, the name was inspired ...

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 ...