Sources claim ‘sympathetic’ Trump is considering pardon for Silk Road founder
Anonymous sources claim that President Trump is sympathetic to the Free Ross campaign and is considering clemency for the Silk Road founder. According to The Daily Beast, outgoing U.S. president Donald Trump is considering granting clemency to Ross Ulbricht — the founder and operator of the pioneering darknet market, Silk Road.Ulbricht was arrested in 2013 and received two life sentences without parole for non-violent offenses in 2015.The anonymous sources relied on in the report claim that the White House counsel’s office has been reviewing documents related to Ulbricht’s case, and that....
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Back in October many of the trolls and ents of Reddit muttered and mumbled to themselves about joining together in a class action lawsuit to claim pieces of the 29000 Bitcoins seized by the FBI on October 2nd, 2013. The 29,000 Bitcoins taken from Silk Road servers on that day belonged to the international motley crew of buyers and sellers on Silk Road. Many of those Bitcoins were tied up in escrow in ongoing deals, or simply sitting in the accounts of buyers and sellers waiting for withdrawal or use. Nothing came of all the hubbub raised by Silk Road users about their Bitcoins being swept....
US president Donald Trump has fired Preet Bharara, the attorney known as ‘the most dangerous man in Bitcoin.’ Silk Road Bharara: ‘I Did Not Resign’. The now former Southern District of New York (SDNY) representative is famous for jailing Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht and handing over 174,000 bitcoins to the US government. In what is being described as a “showdown,” Bharara was dismissed Friday after reportedly refusing to resign his position on government orders. He was one of 46 Obama-era appointees the Trump administration is removing from their posts. “I did not resign. Moments ago I....
Undoubtedly many readers have seen this wallet before, we've linked to it a lot here in articles onCCN. Those are the "Silk Road Bitcoins" seized by a joint federal task force in the October take-down of the infamous online drug marketplace: Silk road. During the take-down that included crazy antics by undercover agents at a public library in a brazen heist to steal Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht's laptop mid-session, the Feds were able to gain control of 29,655 Bitcoins from Silk Roads' servers. These Bitcoins belonged, in large part, to individual users of Silk Road from around the....
The latest reincarnation of the deep web marketplace, in the form of Silk Road 3.0 is started by the people behind Crypto Market. Will they be able to live up to the expectations? Silk Road is reincarnated for the fourth time. The deep web marketplace is back online after its predecessors were forcibly shut down by the law enforcement agencies resulting in the creator’s arrest and incarceration. Silk Road used to be a network of trade routes traversing through the whole of Asian continent to connect with the Mediterranean Sea. It originally got its name for being the route taken by the....