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 ...

Most who believe the latter, however, often base their opinion on claims that Ulbricht allegedly attempted to hire a hitman on a former Silk Road administrator, who stood accused of embezzling bitcoin ...

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 ...

Ulbricht operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road when law enforcement arrested him. The pardon fulfills ...