In a move that has sparked heated debates across the nation, former President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the convicted founder of the infamous Silk Road website, on January 21,

Until, of course, in 2013 the Silk Road was shut down by FBI agents and Mr Ulbricht, then 29 years old, was arrested in the science-fiction section of a San Francisco public library. In 2015, after a four-week trial,

Donald Trump pardoned the creator of the world’s first dark-web drug market, who is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some parts of the crypto community.