The founder of the Darknet Marketplam Silk Ross Ross Ulbricht received 300 BTC (~ $ 31.4 million) with one transaction on his wallet for collecting donations.
Ross ulbricht (@Realrossu), The Founder of the #Silkroad MarketPlace, Receved 300 $ BTC($ 31.4m) to her Donation Wallet 8 Hours AGO.https://t.co/3desm9rpbq pic.twitter.com/JOMNQM99P
– Lookonchain (@lookonchain) June 1, 2025
Commentators dispersed regarding the origin of a large donat. According to some assumptions, the sender could be a supporter of bitcoin, thus evaluating the contribution of the entrepreneur to the popularization of cryptocurrency. For others, a grateful buyer with Silk Road.
The co -founder of the Satflow platform Robert Clark admitted that in this way Ulbricht was laundering the income that the authorities with confiscation from confiscation. His opinion also found support.
Users in the discussion affected the topic of blockchain’s confidentiality.
On January 21, US President Donald Trump signed a decree on the full and unconditional pardon of the creator of Silk Road. The liberation of Ulbricht was one of the promises of the campaign of the politician.
The entrepreneur was arrested in October 2013. In May 2015, the U.S. District Judge Katherine Forest found him guilty of drug trafficking, a conspiracy to transport drugs, hacking computer networks and laundering money, as well as in the leadership of a criminal organization. Ulbricht received a double-lifelong prison term without the right to parole, from which he served 11 years.
After the entrepreneur from prison, the Coinbase Product Director Konor Gogan said that he discovered 430 BTC in dozens of presumably related wallets. Assets remained untouched 13 years and were not related to the ~ 174 000 BTC MarketpLES.
On May 29, an auction for the sale of personal belongings of Ulbrichta ended, during which he raised about $ 1.8 million in bitcoins. Among the SCARCE City Lotov, there were three certificates of the prisoner at the SCARCE CITY site, a prison notebook, a locking lock, clothes and shoes in which he was released, and paintings written during the serving of the deadline.
Speaking at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas with the first speech after liberation, Ulbricht outlined three principles of the future-“freedom, decentralization and unity”.
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Source: Cryptocurrency
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