The bitcoin enthusiast thanked all members of the community who supported him while he was serving the term.

An early adopter and the founder of Bitcoin Foundation Charlie Shrem is back home from Lewisburg prison. He currently stays in Southern Pennsylvania with his partner.

“I’m grateful for the opportunity to be back home,” wrote Shrem in his blog.

Charlie Shrem, born in New York, is one of the early bitcoin entrepreneurs in the US. In 2011, Shrem founded one of the first notable bitcoin exchanges, BitInstant. His company attracted $1.5 million from Winklevoss Capital and successfully operated until the bitcoin price drop of 2013. In July 2013, the exchange suspended services.

On 27 January 2014, Charlie Shrem was arrested at New York’s JFK airport. He was charged with “conspiring to commit money laundering” for the illegal dark web marketplace Silk Road.

In December 2014, judge Jed Rakoff sentenced Charlie Shrem to two years in prison. According to the court’s verdict, the defendant had participated in a complex chain of operations that allowed the Silk Road website to have constant access to a bitcoin exchange.

In March 2015, Shrem surrendered to the authorities and served 14 months of house arrest. This allowed to shorten his stay in Lewisburg Prison Facility