Silk Road leader Ross Ulbricht will render his first public appearance since being freed from prison earlier this year, speaking at the Las Vegas Bitcoin Conference on May 27 through May 29.
Following a presidential pardon by Donald Trump in January that saw the close of his prison, the media, announced by Ulbricht on X on April 10, follows.  ,
Trump praised support from the Libertarian movement and called the sentence “ridiculous,” calling Ulbricht a “full and absolute pardon.”
Ulbricht ran the Silk Road platform from 2011 to 2013 under the pseudonym” Dread Pirate Roberts.”
Silk Road, one of the first large-scale usage scenarios for bitcoin, offered everything from cocaine and methamphetamine to high-quality cannabis, all of which were purchased using Bitcoin.  ,
According to the FBI, the Silk Road generated$ 13 million in Bitcoin charges.
In a San Francisco libraries in 2013, the FBI detained Ulbricht. In connection with the site, it also seized 173 991 Bitcoins, which were at the time worth more than$ 33 million.
After being found guilty in 2015 on a long list of expenses relating to the creation and operation of Silk Road, Ulbricht spent more than 11 years in prison.
Claims of cocaine trafficking, money fraud, and computer hackers were among them. He received 40 years in prison plus two living words without any possibility of being released.  ,
Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, at the time, described Ulbricht as a “drug supplier and legal huckster who exploited women’s vices and contributed to the deaths of at least six younger people.”
Federal prosecutors allege Ulbricht engaged in murder-for-hire tactics that targeted people who threatened to reveal the secrets of Silk Road, even though no actual deaths took place.  ,
The expenses connected to this were ultimately dropped before the trial began.
However, his situation quickly gained notoriety in some liberal and cryptophiliac loops. The Libertarian Party in the United States thanked Trump for upholding his discharge promise following his forgive.
edited by Sebastian Sinclair
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