How crypto bros secured Ross Ulbricht’s pardon

Article by Gavin Haynes, published in UnHerd

There are two facts worth knowing about Ross Ulbricht. The first is that had he found an extra second at his arrest to slam down the lid of his laptop, his data would have self-erased and he would never have been jailed in the first place. The second is that if the FBI hadn’t sold his stash of Bitcoin at $334 apiece, he would today be a billionaire.

Now, in one of over 100 executive orders made at the beginning of his presidency, Donald Trump has pardoned Ulbricht, springing the Silk Road kingpin from the Arizona penitentiary where he’d spent a decade. “It’s crazy,” Trump remarked. “The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern-day weaponisation of government against me.”

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