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Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht Life in prison In the year 2015 to regulate the online marketplace for illegal drugs and hacking services.
“The crooks who worked to impeach him (Ulbricht) were some of the crazies involved in the modern apparatus of government against me,” Trump wrote late Tuesday.
Season UlbrichtUS prosecutors say he ran the anonymous marketplace to exploit the anonymity of the dark web and the digital currency bitcoin.
At the time, the issue attracted the attention of bitcoin evangelists and freedom groups as the government tried to criminalize hosting the site.
Trump, who announced the apology, said it was “a tribute to the libertarian movement that has supported me so strongly.”
Trump in 2016 Ulbricht, who was jailed in San Francisco in 2013, promised to pardon him at the Libertarian Party National Conference last May.
“This is a seismic shift, against the wall of government oppression,” the Liberal Party said following the apology.
The move comes after the crypto industry donated millions of dollars to Trump’s election campaign, promising to make America the “Bitcoin superpower of the world.”
Silk Road is run by the Tor network and only accepts bitcoin as payment, which US prosecutors say has helped keep its users and their locations from being known.
The website allowed criminals to sell large quantities of drugs, computer hacking services and forged documents and other illegal goods and services, prosecutors said.
During the US government raid, 173,991 bitcoins were seized from Ulbricht’s laptop.
