FBI investigators said that on or about March 29, 2013, Ulbricht contacted a Silk Road seller “Redandwhite” to see about hiring him to to take out another Silk Road user — someone going by ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A corrupt former drug enforcement agent who played a central role in taking ...

but you can't take down the idea." The FBI says they cannot comment about an ongoing investigation but has said that the original website processed $1.2 billion in transactions. The new Silk Road ...

Take A Walk Down Silk Road On Oct. 1, 2013, the FBI arrested 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht, alleging he was the so-called Dread Pirate Roberts, the mastermind behind anonymous online drug bazaar the ...

Standing up for human rights can take all sorts of shapes ... weapons and other illicit goods remains whether or not the Silk Road is shut down. Even if the War on Drugs were to end tomorrow ...

"Far from causing the demise of this novel form of commerce," write Carnegie-Mellon University researchers Nicolas Cristin and Kyle Soska, "the Silk Road take-down spawned an entire, dynamic ...

A website called the Silk Road previously operated without incident to connect drug dealers with drug seekers, but that's come to an end as of today. The Silk Road operated on the Tor network ...

The original Silk Road got seized by the feds ... “DarkMarket” say their model is impossible for the feds to take down. Amir Taaki and the other developers behind DarkMarket revealed their ...