Donald Trump took a victory lap over the weekend celebrating his January pardon of Ross Ulbricht, founder of the “Silk Road” ...

But even among the deluge, one pardon stood out: Trump granted clemency to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark web drug marketplace Silk Road ... version of the site where they start selling ...

set up the Silk Road online marketplace on the non-public “dark web” in 2011, where customers could use cryptocurrencies to buy everything from illegal drugs to hacking services. The site ...

Ulbricht had a theory: that violent drug cartels would have no chance ... allegedly attempted to hire a hitman on a former Silk Road administrator, who stood accused of embezzling bitcoin from the ...

The Libertarian Party, which has advocated for drug legalization ... he created Silk Road, which a defense lawyer at his trial said was intended as a "freewheeling, free market site." ...

President Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of notorious 2010s drug trafficking website Silk Road, on Tuesday ... During that time, the site did $200 million in business and made Ulbricht ...