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Ross Ulbricht

25 articles decelerating

Ross Ulbricht has appeared in 25 articles since 2015-01. Coverage peaked in 2015Q4 with 4 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Silk Road, FBI, Ulbricht, the United States.

Articles
25
mentions
Velocity
-50.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
-1.500
velocity change
Sources
11
publications

Coverage Timeline

2025-09-08
New York Times 2 related

A look at Ross Ulbricht's return to public life after Trump pardoned him in January, including speaking at Bitcoin 2025 in May and accepting ~$31M in donations

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/t... @jlray : Kinda weird one of the first things Trump did at the start of this term was set free one of the world's deadliest drug dealers, who is not only utterly remorse...

2025-01-23
New York Times 23 related

How Ross Ulbricht's allies, including crypto investors, libertarian politicians, and his mother Lyn Ulbricht, persuaded Trump to pardon the Silk Road founder

Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road website …

2025-01-22
New York Times 43 related

Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, a crypto and libertarian cult hero serving a life sentence since 2015 on money laundering, drug charges, and more

Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.

2024-03-29
Reuters 74 related

A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for stealing from users of his now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange and orders him to forfeit $11B+

Past 6 pm on December 29 … Matthew Russell Lee / Matthew Russell Lee's Newsletter : Aftermath: SBF Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison After Coin Flip and Presidential Aspirations Cited by Judge - Ellison...

2023-07-12
Wired 11 related

A US court sentences Roger Thomas Clark, Silk Road's second-in-command behind Ross Ulbricht, to 20 years, after his extradition from Thailand in June 2018

Andy Greenberg / Wired :

2023-01-01
Wall Street Journal 18 related

Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried will likely plead not guilty to fraud and other charges at a January 3 hearing; SBF returns to Twitter to deny he moved Alameda funds

Sam Bankman-Fried is likely to enter a plea of not guilty Sam Bankman-Fried is likely to enter a plea of not guilty https://www.wsj.com/... Mike Elgan / @mikeelgan : WSJ says Sam Bankman-Fried likely ...

2022-04-23
CoinDesk 6 related

Filing: Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht will see his $183M debt forfeited by selling the 69K+ bitcoins seized in 2020 connected to an unnamed Silk Road hacker

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk :

2022-02-18
Bloomberg 18 related

DOJ establishes the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team to investigate illegal schemes run by criminals and countries like North Korea and Iran

Friday, February 18, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: ISG Jamie Lowe / Protos : Attorney who kept Ross Ulbricht in prison to lead DoJ crypto task force Catalin Cimpanu / The Record : DOJ appoints of...

2019-04-12
Motherboard

UK court sentences Thomas White, who ran Silk Road 2 as Dread Pirate Roberts 2 and became a privacy activist after his arrest in 2014, to 5+ years in prison

For years, the arrest and case has been kept under-wraps.  Friday, a court sentenced Thomas White to 5 years and 4 months for his role … Tweets: @breakermag , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @josephfcox ,...

2018-06-17
Ars Technica 3 related

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht's alleged right-hand man Roger Thomas Clark, also known as Variety Jones, extradited to US after 2.5+ years in Thai custody

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica :

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TEXXR tracks 18 Techmeme articles mentioning Ross Ulbricht, dating back to January 2015. The biggest stories include Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, a crypto and libertarian cult hero serving... and Founder of Silk Road drug marketplace Ross Ulbricht sentenced to life in prison, to.... Frequently covered alongside Silk Road, Ulbricht, DEA, Roger Thomas Clark, and FBI.

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