From Silk Road to today, dormant wallets and mixing tools are no longer enough to hide illicit funds onchain, as ZachXBT’s investigations continue to prove.
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Chainalysis told WIRED that it tracked a $31 million Bitcoin donation to online black market Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht to a successor marketplace called Alphabay.
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ZachXBT says both the wallet addresses that sent Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht 300 Bitcoin were active in 2014 and 2019 while he was in prison.
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Ross Ulbricht’s auction of personal belongings fetched more than $1.8 million in Bitcoin, with standout items like his prison ID card and artwork drawing top bids.
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Less than two months after receiving a pardon from US President Donald Trump, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht attended a March 4 joint session of Congress.
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The Office of the Pardon Attorney has a backlog of roughly 10,000 petitions. Unless a convict has political connections, the chances of clemency are slim.
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Wallets tied to recently freed Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht listed tokens at the wrong price, which were then snapped up by a bot.
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Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, freed by Donald Trump’s pardon after more than 11 years in prison, called the US president “a man of his word.”
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The Silk Road founder’s financial status was unclear, but many crypto users have donated to his ”transition into his new life” since he received a presidential pardon.
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The Silk Road creator walked free on Jan. 22 after 12 years in prison. Wallets tied to him are rumored to be worth around $47 million.
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The Silk Road founder received a pardon from US President Donald Trump on Jan. 21 after being sentenced to life in prison in 2015.
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The community is celebrating Ross Ulbricht’s pardon, with many discussing how it could impact the public image of Bitcoin around the world.
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US President Donald Trump has followed through on his promise to pardon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online drug market Silk Road, who was imprisoned for over a decade.
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Donald Trump pledged to pardon Ross Ulbricht on his first day in office, likely making his name appealing to scammers ahead of the US presidential inauguration.
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“Immense gratitude to everyone who voted for President Trump on my behalf,” the Silk Road founder wrote in a November X post.
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