and broader implications for the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has been granted approval to sell 69,370 Bitcoin linked to the Silk Road darknet marketplace.

What the seizure shows is that while Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht is ... Worth $150 million when it was pilfered in 2024, the stolen cryptocurrency is now worth as much as $715 million.

Since being released, Ulbricht has kept a relatively low profile, though analysts say cryptocurrency wallets linked to the Silk Road founder have lost millions of dollars this year during an ...

The Silk Road, a dark web marketplace that used Bitcoin as its currency, was a pioneering use of cryptocurrency but also a hub for illicit activity. While there was no evidence Ulbricht directly ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is free after spending over a decade behind bars on drug and cybercrime charges — and he's taking his little prison plant with him. After newly-minted president ...

On January 21, one day into his second term, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road online ... in the libertarian and cryptocurrency communities ...

After several hard fought years of the cryptocurrency industry's search for regulatory clarity, we may finally be at an ...

Once a sceptic who criticised cryptocurrency as a scam, Trump himself has demonstrated little personal passion for the industry. Policies such as freeing Ross Ulbricht, the founder of online drug ...

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht ... a few years after the emergence of the popular cryptocurrency. "The scum that worked to convict ...