Donald Trump pardoned the creator of the world’s first dark web drug market, who is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some parts of the crypto community.

Trump said he had called Ulbricht's mother to let her know that he had granted a full and unconditional pardon to her son.

President Donald Trump has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence after being convicted of running an underground online marketplace that was used by thousands of drug dealers and others to conduct over $200 million worth of illicit sales using bitcoin.

President Donald Trump, on Tuesday, pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the anonymous marketplace website Silk Road, which the president promised to do on day one.

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Ross W. Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road, an online marketplace notorious for the sale of heroin, cocaine, LSD and other illegal drugs.

Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind Silk Road, is a free man after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 21st granting him a full and

President Trump announced Tuesday night that he had granted a “full and unconditional” pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the notorious dark web site Silk Road.

Libertarian activists, who generally oppose criminal drug policies, argued the government overreached in building its case against Ross Ulbricht and the dark web marketplace Silk Road.

Donald Trump has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road who was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of money laundering, narcotics trafficking and computer hacking.