It was Ross Ulbricht, the obnoxious founder of the dark Silk Road website free From prison.
A photo of Olbić leaving prison has already begun circulating on social media.
He spent nearly a decade behind bars after being sentenced to life plus 40 years in May 2015. The US government charged him with drug and money laundering conspiracies.
The notorious Ubricht website made it possible to buy and sell drugs as well as other illicit goods such as fake ID cards.
He was also accused of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to kill several people, but these murder-for-hire charges were dropped due to them being illegal.
A very controversial pardon
Ulbricht, one of the early bitcoiners credited with popularizing bitcoin, is celebrated within the bitcoin community, which leans strongly libertarian.
However, the decision to release Ubricht was met with a wave of criticism outside the cryptocurrency space.
“Ulbricht is a high-tech drug dealer who became rich off the corpses of those who overdosed through sales he made available on the dark web,” said Juliet Kaim of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Does Ulbricht have a secret stash of Bitcoin?
Now that Ulbricht has been released from prison, the community is busy speculating whether or not he still has secret Bitcoin wallets.
The US government seized a total of 173,991 bitcoins directly and indirectly from Ulbricht. As of today, that would be more than $18 billion.
It is not clear whether Ulbricht still has a claim to any remaining bitcoins related to Silk Road.
like Reported by U. TodayRecently, the US government was allowed to liquidate a total of 67,000 bitcoins seized from an anonymous hacker on the Silk Road.
