Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, received 300 BTC in June 2025, worth over $31 million. Blockchain analysis tied the donation to old AlphaBay darknet wallets. The donor’s identity remains ...

A crypto wallet tied to the defunct darknet market Alphabay was behind a 300 Bitcoin donation to Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, Chainalysis told WIRED.

Ross Ulbricht, the former founder of the now-defunct drug trafficking site Silk Road, recently received an anonymous donation of 300 Bitcoins, worth around $31 million, according to reporting from ...

Ross Ulbricht, the convicted founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, has once again found himself in the spotlight after receiving and quickly withdrawing a large Bitcoin donation worth $31 ...

Ross Ulbricht, formerly known online by the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" (a nod to the novel "The Princess Bride"), is known today as the founder of the Silk Road marketplace, a former site on ...

Ross Ulbricht’s recent receipt of 300 Bitcoin is from “questionable sources,” but it’s unlikely to be a case where he donated it to himself, says blockchain researcher ZachXBT.

Unpacking the Mystery Behind the 300 Bitcoin Donation to Ross Ulbricht Even after spending 12 years in prison for running Silk Road, which was a dark web marketplace that used bitcoin for payments, ...

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.

Crypto wallets tied to recently pardoned Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht lost $12 million after making a memecoin trading mistake, says blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence. “Because he ...

Charles Bethea on President Donald Trump’s pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence in connection with his operation and ownership of Silk Road, a black-market Web site that ...

Ross Ulbricht, founder of the now-defunct darknet drug market previously known as Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him free and hinted at his future plans in a video posted to X.