{"id":8790,"date":"2025-01-21T07:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T07:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=8790"},"modified":"2025-01-21T07:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T07:46:45","slug":"polymarket-bettors-certain-ross-ulbricht-pardon-is-on-trumps-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=8790","title":{"rendered":"Polymarket Bettors Certain Ross Ulbricht Pardon Is on Trump\u2019s Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump didn’t mention bitcoin (BTC) during his inaugural speech<\/a> and crypto was absent from his first batch of executive orders, but Polymarket bettors are confident a pardon for Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht will be coming soon.<\/p>\n

A Polymarket contract<\/a> asking who Trump will pardon in his first 100 days in office shot up to 99% after posts on X from Elon Musk, and Angela McArdle, chair of the Libertarian National Committee, said that a pardon for Ulbricht was in the works.<\/p>\n

Trump first promised to pardon Ulbricht during a campaign stop<\/a> at the Libertarian National Convention last May.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you vote for me, on Day 1, I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht to a sentence of time served,\u201d Trump said during a speech last year. \u201cHe\u2019s already served 11 years, we\u2019re gonna get him home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison<\/a> without the possibility of parole in 2015 for his role in the operation of the Silk Road marketplace, which pioneered the use of the dark web.<\/p>\n

Supporters of Ulbricht say that his sentence<\/a> was disproportionately long for the crime.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the Polymarket pardon list is Roger Ver, an early bitcoin investor and bitcoin cash (BCH) advocate, who was indicted for tax fraud last April<\/a>, and the market is giving a 32% chance of a pardon taking place in the first 100 days.<\/p>\n

Despite crypto playing a prominent part of Trump’s campaign, Polymarket bettors are only giving a 43% of a crypto executive order<\/a>, regarding the use, trading, or legal status of digital assets, happening in the first week.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump didn’t mention bitcoin (BTC) during his inaugural speech and crypto was absent from his first batch of executive orders, but Polymarket bettors are confident a pardon for Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht will be coming soon. A Polymarket contract asking who Trump will pardon in his first 100 days in office shot […]<\/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-8790","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\/8790","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=8790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}