Ross Ulbricht President Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, former internet drug lord and creator of the dark web marketplace Silk Road , on Tuesday. Although Ross completed a degree in physics, he was sentenced to life in prison in 2013 for running an underground online marketplace where drug dealers and others conducted more than $200 million in illicit trade using Bitcoin, according to Reuters . Silk Road was presented as a Bitcoin operation but was an inconspicuous means of ob