Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht pardoned by Trump 10 years into life sentence
The self-declared “pro-crypto president” Donald Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht on Tuesday.
Ulbricht, 40, was about 10 years into his life sentence for helming an online black market where drug dealers, money launderers, and traffickers used bitcoins to mask more than $214 million in illicit trades. (Ars thoroughly documented the Silk Road saga here.)
Trump had pledged at the Libertarian National Convention to set Ulbricht free while on the campaign trail, agreeing with supporters who believe that Ulbricht’s long sentence was a harsh example of government overreach.
