#BTC:

Ross Ulbricht, founder and main operator of Silk Road, received an anonymous donation of 300 BTC, equivalent to approximately USD $31.4 million, according to data reported by the Lookonchain platform.

The transfer was sent to a wallet associated with the “Free Ross” campaign, which has collected funds for his reintegration since he was released in early 2025. The fall of Silk Road

Silk Road came to an end in 2013 after the FBI discovered its existence. Although federal agents admitted that the use of Tor and Bitcoin to hide addresses was a significant obstacle, they still managed to dismantle the underground drug market.

The FBI permanently shut down the site, confiscated more than 144,000 bitcoins (valued at that time at 34 million dollars), and arrested several users of the site, including the founder, Ross Ulbricht, who earned around 80 million dollars in commissions from transactions made within the site. Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole until President Trump pardoned him.

Silk Road was the name of a platform used on the dark web to sell illegal products, providing anonymity to those who needed it for their activities. Federal agents dismantled the site and its founder was arrested in 2013.