In 2011, Ulbricht—who used the moniker “Dread Pirate Roberts”—founded Silk Road, an anonymous e-commerce site on the Tor network that allowed users to conceal their computer’s IP address and hide ...

Ross Ulbricht, also known as "Dread Pirate Roberts," operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road between 2011 and 2013, when law enforcement shut the site down and arrested ... and ...

The FBI said Silk Road had generated more than $200m (£161m) in sales of drugs, guns, fake IDs and computer hacking services, while it also linked six drug-related deaths to the site. It was used ...