The United States is considering the Bitcoin Act of 2024, a bill proposing the government purchase up to 1 million Bitcoins ...

A law enforcement officer in a UK crime agency was sentenced to prison after stealing 50 Bitcoin that was seized in the Silk Road 2.0 investigation.

Like gas stoves, bike lanes and Bud Light, crypto has become a hot item in the raging culture war of our times ...

Christopher Wilton-Steer A version of this article appears in print on July 27, 2025, Page 22 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Up Close / ‘The Silk Road,’ by Christopher Wilton-Steer.

Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, received 300 BTC in June 2025, worth over $31 million. Blockchain analysis tied the donation to old AlphaBay darknet ...

Ross Ulbricht, the former founder of the now-defunct drug trafficking site Silk Road, recently received an anonymous donation of 300 Bitcoins, worth around $31 million, according to reporting from ...

Yes, Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road dark web marketplace The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among ...

Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht to Speak at Bitcoin 2025 Conference. A Martyr, or a Symbol of the Times? The founder of dark web market Silk Road, jailed for life and pardoned by President Trump ...

Trump pardoned Silk Road CEO, Ross Ulbricht Trump’s crypto-friendly policies gained further prominence with his pardon of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road darknet marketplace, on January 22 ...

This ideology inspired him to create Silk Road in 2011, a darknet marketplace enabling anonymous transactions, made feasible by Bitcoin. Ulbricht saw the platform as a free-market experiment, allowing ...

The next logical question [is] should the same measures be applied to the founders of Hydra, Silk Road’s successor?” Hydra, a darknet market, was infamously shut down in April 2022 after German and ...