Silk Road’s mysterious owner, Dread Pirate Roberts, finally speaks He’s not the first man to use the Dread Pirate Roberts moniker. Patrick Howell O'Neill Updated on June 1 2021 9:10 am CDT ...

Not the original Dread Pirate Roberts, the character who figured in the film “The Princess Bride” — the Dread Pirate Roberts who was the head of the unofficial eBay of drugdom called Silk Road.

Silk Road is back — and so is the Dread Pirate Roberts. A month has passed since federal agents gave the Glen Park library science fiction section the thrill of its life when they swooped in to arrest ...

President Donald Trump pardoned the founder of darknet marketplace Silk Road, he said in a post to Truth Social on Tuesday night. Ross William Ulbricht, known online as Dread Pirate Roberts, was ...

FriendlyChemist had approached Dread Pirate Roberts online in March 2013 demanding US$500,000 within 72 hours, or else he would reveal the real identities of 5,000 Silk Road users.

Ulbricht had affixed Dread Pirate Roberts’ public encryption key to an untold number of Silk Road-related emails and forum posts. A public key allows someone to verify that a message comes from ...

Silk Road closed: Founder of Dark Web’s drug marketplace arrested According to the FBI, Silk Road proprietor Dread Pirate Roberts has been identified and arrested.

So much for being tough on crime. Felon 47 has been on a pardon spree, and his latest one for Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts ...

On Silk Road, federal investigators say, Ulbricht called himself "Dread Pirate Roberts," shortened often to "DPR." The moniker comes from a character in the novel The Princess Bride, depicted as a ...

Ross W. Ulbricht was the founder of an online marketplace called Silk Road, where illegal drugs were bought and sold. Ulbricht operated the website between 2011 and 2013, when he was arrested.

The US Marshals have announced they'll be auctioning nearly 30,000 Bitcoins seized from legal actions taken against Silk Road 1.0. The auction will sell off nine blocks of 3,000 BTC (referred to ...

But Dratel said Ulbricht was not the real "Dread Pirate Roberts," the online alias for Silk Road's operator, and said the people behind Silk Road had brought him back only after realizing law ...