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.

Crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis says the mysterious 300-bitcoin donation to the pardoned Silk Road creator appears to have come from someone associated with a different defunct black market: AlphaBay.

Ross Ulbricht, the former founder of the now-defunct drug trafficking site Silk Road, recently received an anonymous donation of 300 Bitcoins, worth around $31 million, according to reporting from ...

Silk Road provided an early use case for bitcoin—the untraceable currency flowed through the platform and allowed the sale of illicit goods to flourish internationally. It didn’t last long.

After being in prison for more than 11 years for his involvement with the darknet marketplace Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht appears to have wasted no time making public appearances. In a March 4 X post ...

Ross Ulbricht’s recent substantial donation of 300 Bitcoin likely wasn’t the Silk Road founder sending himself funds, onchain detective ZachXBT says.