President Trump fulfilled yet another campaign promise Tuesday when he issued a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, a/k/a Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the original dark web marketplace Silk Road.
Ulbricht launched Silk Road in 2011, and it quickly became the Star Wars cantina of the dark web. In addition to a marketplace for just about anything you wanted to buy, it will probably, in retrospect, be seen as how Bitcoin and crypto leaped from being something peculiar to guys wearing birth control glasses and practicing poor personal hygiene to being edgy and cool.
As the site grew in underground popularity, it came to the attention of federal authorities. Eventually, Ulbricht was identified as the proprietor and arrested in San Francisco in 2013.
My personal feeling has always been that the Ulbricht prosecution had a January 6 feel about it. He was…
