The Silk Road was a network of land and sea-based trade routes that connected parts of the African, Asian, and European ...

Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 on charges related to his website, where users could buy and sell drugs and other illegal goods with bitcoin.

The U.S. Marshals Service held an auction Friday of nearly 30,000 bitcoins seized from the now-shuttered online black market, Silk Road. Silk Road used ‘anonymity layers,’ digital currency to ...