"He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!" In October 2013, the FBI shut down Silk Road, a now-defunct ...

In 2015, Ulbricht, who called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to life in prison for owning and operating Silk Road, the dark web marketplace for buying ...

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had granted a pardon to Ross William Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace. Ulbricht, who was accused of creating the shadowy ...

President Trump said Tuesday night that he had given a “full and unconditional” pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an online black market which enabled users to buy and sell ...

His ambition to create a marketplace free from government oversight ultimately led to the creation of Silk Road. The Silk Road marketplace was launched in 2011. It was shut down by the FBI in ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency and libertarian worlds. In doing so ...

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the now-defunct darknet drug market previously known as Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him free and hinted at what he has planned for his ...

Prosecutors said Ulbricht ran Silk Road under the alias Dread Pirate Roberts, a reference to a character in the 1987 movie "The Princess Bride," and took extreme steps to protect the marketplace's ...

it emerged as what prosecutors described as the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the internet.The vast majority of items for sale on Silk Road were controlled substances ...

Sani, the architect behind Timechain Index, highlighted that the digital assets in question trace back to the infamous darknet marketplace, the Silk Road. “After checking some of the origins ...

Ridiculous!” In October 2013, the FBI shut down Silk Road, a now-defunct marketplace that allowed users to anonymously buy and sell drugs and other illegal goods and services using bitcoin.