News with the tag "Ross Ulbricht"

On May 13, Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road marketplace, revealed his departure from Arizona, setting off on an undisclosed journey. In a striking move, Ulbricht disclosed plans to auction off select personal belongings—artifacts from his life before incarceration and mementos from his ye...

The possibility of FTX’s co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) being released from prison has arisen again. This comes following his latch ditch political efforts to gain a presidential pardon from Donald Trump. Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks To Gain Favor From Donald Trump Sam Bankman-Fried is looking to get...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, recently released from jail, spoke out in favor of jailed Bitcoin supporter Roger Ver , also known as Bitcoin Jesus. “Roger Ver was there for me,” wrote Ulbricht on X, “when I was down and needed help. Now Roger needs our help. No one should spend the rest of their l...

On Thursday, Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road, posted on social media expressing that Roger Ver warrants support and that “no one should spend the rest of their life in prison over taxes.” Ross Ulbricht Rallies Support for Roger Ver After regaining his freedom earlier this year, following...

Crypto wallets tied to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, have suffered a significant blow, with losses exceeding $12 million after an apparent trading error involving a memecoin he was linked to. According to blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence, Ulbricht, or...

The famous Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht wallet has made a costly mistake, losing $12M within seconds. Although profit and losses are common in the industry, this happened with a crypto liquidity blunder on Raydium, taking the crypto community by surprise. Let’s discuss how this happened. Ross Ulb...

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the notorious Silk Road marketplace, recently made headlines again—not for his controversial past or his pardon by former President Donald Trump, but for a staggering $12 million loss incurred while trading a memecoin on the platform Pump.fun. Ross Ulbricht $12 Million ...

In 2011, darknet entrepreneur Ross Ulbricht founded Silk Road — an online marketplace. The website quickly became a hub for illicit and illegal transactions. Ulbricht, also known under the pseudonym ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’, who envisioned Silk Road as a libertarian marketplace that supported buying a...

New reports reveal that an on-chain investigator has raised allegations connecting Vitalik Buterin , the founder of Ethereum, to the $500 million Gatecoin hack in 2016. According to the crypto sleuth, Buterin’s Ethereum Foundation was allegedly transferring funds to the Gatecoin hackers’ primary wal...

Conor Grogan, Director of Product Strategy at Coinbase, has recently linked 430 bitcoin to the now-free former founder and operator of Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht. According to Grogan, these funds are scattered across dozens of wallets that were not confiscated at the time of Silk Road’s takedown opera...