After serving over a decade in prison for running the Silk Road, the world's first dark-web drug market, Ross Ulbricht has been pardoned by Donald Trump. The pardon, issued on Tuesday evening, has sparked debate about Ulbricht's role in facilitating illegal drug sales and the libertarian movement's stance on free trade.
A little over 11 years and three months ago, Ross Ulbricht was arrested in the science fiction section of a public library in San Francisco, caught with his laptop still logged in to the Silk Road, the world’s first dark-web drug market that he created and ran under the pseudonym the Dread Pirate Roberts.
Ulbricht was charged with only one of those alleged paid killings in a separate prosecution in Maryland, which was then dropped after he received a life sentence in his New York trial. But evidence presented at Ulbricht’s trial showed him allegedly arranging those killings and even pinpointed transactions on Bitcoin’s blockchain that showed a payment for them from Ulbricht’s laptop to the would-be killer.
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