Looking exhausted and relieved, the Silk Road founder said his release feels "amazing"—and that he now plans to spend time with his family.
Coinbase director Conor Grogan says Bitcoin wallets left behind by Ross Ulbricht when he was imprisoned for his underground online marketplace Silk Road are still holding tens of millions of dollars worth of BTC.
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht shares gratitude for Trump’s pardon after serving 11 years of a life sentence.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for running an underground online marketplace where drug dealers and others conducted more than $200 million in illicit trade using bitcoin.
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Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is free after President Donald Trump pardoned him. But who is he and what did he do?
"Donald Trump is a man of his word," the Silk Road founder said in a video published on X hours after release from prison.
Kraken donated $111,111 in Bitcoin to Ross Ulbricht to help him get on with life after spending 11 years in prison, but a Coinbase executive just revealed that there are digital wallets linked to the Silk Road founder with some $47 million in collective crypto holdings.
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 me out. I'm a free man now. So let it be known that Donald Trump is a man of his word,