Ulbricht

[ool-brikht]

noun

1. Walter 1893–1973, German Communist leader: chairman of the East German Council of State 1960–73.

Ulbricht

/ ˈʊlbrɪçt /

noun

1. Walter (ˈvaltər). 1893-1973, East German statesman; largely responsible for the establishment and development of East German communism

Example Sentences

The president has pardoned high-profile crypto criminals, including Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht.

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The guy who facilitated at least some of that—Ross Ulbricht, founder of the online black market Silk Road—was pardoned by Trump in one of his first moves back in the White House.

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And while Ulbricht sat behind bars for almost a decade, gambling became legalized, and many of those drugs became legalized too.

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One of Trump’s very first moves in office, in fact, was pardoning Ulbricht, the Silk Road founder.

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The symbolism is striking: On a recent Vox podcast, Ulbricht biographer Nick Bilton described Silk Road’s facilitation of Bitcoin-denominated Chinese fentanyl shipments in the early 2010s as a key step in the drug’s apocalyptic takeover of the U.S. opioid market.

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