The appointment brings a veteran of a major credit card network player to the company’s board at a time when cryptocurrency firms are looking to establish higher trust and credibility.

The mastermind behind the “Silk Road” online marketplace that facilitated millions of dollars of drug sales has been given a full and unconditional pardon by US President Donald Trump.

Technically, Donald Trump broke his campaign promise by not freeing Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht on day one of his presidency. (No, inauguration day is not “day zero.”) But as I explained in my ...

When wielded responsibly, the presidential power to pardon and commute sentences is essential to right injustices. Controversy rightly arose after President Joe Biden, in his last minutes in ...

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 ...

Ross Ulbricht had been sentenced to life in prison in 2015 after a high-profile prosecution, which Trump called "ridiculous" ...

Donald Trump has used his presidential powers to pardon convicted felon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of notorious dark web ...

Elon Musk has recently expressed interest in seeking a presidential pardon for Roger Ver, widely known in the cryptocurrency ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is free after President Donald Trump pardoned him. But who is he and what did he do?

Console Wars’ duo Jonah Tulis and Blake J. Harris have conducted more than 60 hours of interviews with Ulbricht, who became a ...

Ross Ulbricht was found guilty in 2015 of creating and operating Silk Road, a hidden website where people bought and sold illegal drugs, as well as other unlawful goods and services.

Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road ...