{"id":29706,"date":"2025-06-02T06:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29706"},"modified":"2025-06-02T06:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:16:45","slug":"ross-ulbricht-the-silk-road-founder-pardoned-by-trump-soon-after-his-inauguration-receives-a-whopping-31-million-worth-of-bitcoin-in-donation-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29706","title":{"rendered":"Ross Ulbricht, The Silk Road Founder Pardoned By Trump Soon After His Inauguration, Receives A Whopping $31 Million Worth Of Bitcoin In Donation Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A wallet linked to <strong>Ross Ulbricht<\/strong>, the creator of illegal drug marketplace\u00a0<strong>Silk Road<\/strong>, received over $30 million in <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) on Saturday, sparking intrigue among the cryptocurrency community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: According to on-chain tracker Lookonchain, Ulbricht\u2019s donation wallet\u00a0received a transfer of 300\u00a0BTC, approximately $31.47 million. Hours later, the stash was transferred to another wallet, details about which remained unknown as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p>A message sent to the Instagram accounts of Ulbricht and his wife by Benzinga did not receive an immediate response.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ross Ulbricht(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealRossU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RealRossU<\/a>), the founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SilkRoad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SilkRoad<\/a> marketplace, received 300 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a>($31.4M) to his donation wallet 8 hours ago.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3DEsM9rpBq\">https:\/\/t.co\/3DEsM9rpBq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JoUMNqM99p\">pic.twitter.com\/JoUMNqM99p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1929015485439389888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Soon after, theories and conjectures arose, with observers making various claims. A cryptocurrency commentator called <strong>CR1337<\/strong> said, \u201cYou want to tell me that a single entity donated 300 BTC, more than $30M, to Ross Ulbricht, and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/cannabis\/25\/06\/45714519\/ross-ulbricht-the-silk-road-founder-pardoned-by-trump-soon-after-his-inauguration-receives-a-whopping-31\" alt=\"Ross\" ulbricht the silk road founder pardoned by trump soon after his inauguration receives a whopping million worth of bitcoin in donation wallet>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wallet linked to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of illegal drug marketplace\u00a0Silk Road, received over $30 million in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) on Saturday, sparking intrigue among the cryptocurrency community. What Happened: According to on-chain tracker Lookonchain, Ulbricht\u2019s donation wallet\u00a0received a transfer of 300\u00a0BTC, approximately $31.47 million. Hours later, the stash was transferred to another wallet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-29706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}