Silk Road website raided by FBI, Ross William Ulbricht arrested. Oct. 2, 2013— -- A billion dollar black market website allowed people to use Bitcoin digital currency to buy guns, drugs or ...

Ulbricht, who founded the infamous online black market Silk Road, received 300 Bitcoin (BTC), worth $31.4 million, to his wallet that was soliciting donations, Blockchain analytics firm ...

But the site was notorious for selling vast swathes of drugs.) Ulbricht created the Silk Road site, accessible only using specific software that could connect to the dark web, in January 2011.

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 ...

Between 2011 and his arrest in 2013, Ulbricht had operated the dark web black market known as Silk Road, which allowed anonymous users to purchase goods without a trail, including illegal items ...

The self-declared "pro-crypto president" Donald Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht on Tuesday. Ulbricht, 40, was about 10 years into his life sentence for helming an online black ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for running an underground online marketplace where drug dealers and others ...

Stein added that Clark was “clear-eyed and intentional” in his work as Ulbricht's “right-hand man” in the Silk Road's operations. “The sentence must reflect the vast criminal enterprise ...

My interest in his case began in 2013 when I was working on DEEP WEB, a documentary about the darknet black market and forum Silk Road, and the global hunt for its leader, known only as Dread ...