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 Silk Road, the ancient trading route that spanned ... Federal investigators shut down the high-profile online market for illegal drugs known as Silk Road and arrested the site's alleged ...

Despite calling for the death penalty for drug dealers, president Donald Trump pardoned Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht, the man behind the seminal online drug marketplace Silk Road ...

You may be familiar with the saga of illegal drug market the Silk Road, but that is just one small part of what is commonly called the "dark web." Accessible only ...

Documentary looking at the black market website known as the Silk Road, which emerged on the darknet in 2011. This 'Amazon of illegal drugs' was the brainchild of a mysterious, libertarian ...

Ulbricht ran Silk Road, the now infamous site that made history as the first dark web marketplace, offering a cornucopia of banned drugs in exchange for the then-nascent cryptocurrency Bitcoin.

Ulbricht, who founded the Silk Road marketplace on the dark web in 2011, had been in custody since his arrest in 2013 for allowing users to buy and sell illegal drugs as well as offer unlawful ...

Who is Ross Ulbricht? While he's been known for some time as the brains and ideological force of the now-defunct online black marketplace Silk Road, his path to this role was long and winding.

"Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for running an online platform where drug dealers conducted more than $200 million in illegal drug sales [...]." ...

The Libertarian Party, which has advocated for drug legalization ... he created Silk Road, which a defense lawyer at his trial said was intended as a "freewheeling, free market site." ...