Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, will appear his first public appearance since his release from prison earlier this year, will speak at the Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas from 27 to 29 May.
The news, announced By Ulbricht on X on April 10, one will follow Presidential grace By Donald Trump in January that the end of his imprisonment saw.
Trump granted Ulbricht a ‘complete and unconditional pardon’, with reference to support from the libertarian movement and the name of ‘ridiculous’.
From 2011 to 2013 Ulbricht operated the Silk Road market under the alias “Dread Pirate Roberts.”
Silk Road only accessible via the Tor-Browser, from heroin and cocaine to high-quality cannabis, all bought with Bitcoin and make it one of the first large-scale use cases for cryptocurrency.
The FBI estimated that the Silk Road $ 13 million generated Bitcoin committees.
In 2013, the FBI Ulbricht arrested in a library of San Francisco. It also seized 173,991 bitcoins, at the time more than $ 33 million worth more than $ 33 million in connection with the site.
Ulbricht spent more than 11 years behind bars after he was convicted in 2015 on a laundry list with charges with regard to the creation and running Silk Road.
Among them were accusations of drug trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking. He received two life sentences plus 40 years without the risk of conditional release.
At the time, Preet Bharara, American lawyer for the southern district of New York, Ulbricht “noticed a drug dealer and criminal beneficial benefits who exploited people’s addictions and contributed to the death of at least six young people.”
Federal Public Prosecutors also claimed that Ulbricht paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in murder-for-rent services aimed at people who are in danger of revealing the effect behind Silk Road, although no murders actually took place.
The charges related to this were eventually fallen before the process.
His case, however, became a cause Célèbre in some libertarian and crypto circles. After his pardon, the Libertarian Party in the US thanked Trump for honoring his promise to release him.
Published by Sebastian Sinclair
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