The 12 year campaign to free Ross Ulbricht — the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road, a dark web mail-order-drug store — finally ended in January, when Donald Trump officially pardoned the bitcoin criminal. Now, Ulbricht is picking up where he left off, getting his first taste of a world he left behind in 2013 when a federal judge sentenced him to two counts of life in prison, plus 40 years without parole. Taking the stage at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas this week, the drug kingpin was agog at the piles of kitschy tech products that had […]