He credits Silk Road’s creation to another, even more secretive entrepreneur whom he declined to tell me anything about and who may have used the ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’ nom de guerre before ...

Ross Ulbricht, also known as "Dread Pirate Roberts," operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road between 2011 and 2013, when law enforcement shut the site down and arrested him ...

Ross Ulbricht has his freedom. After serving nearly 12 years in federal prison for running a notorious online drugs bazaar, Ulbricht—who went by the name Dread Pirate Roberts when he was a crime ...

“The stated purpose [of the Silk Road] was to be beyond the law. In the world you created over time, democracy didn’t exist. You were captain of the ship, the Dread Pirate Roberts,” Judge Katherine ...

Ulbricht, aka “Dread Pirate Roberts,” was convicted on narcotics charges in 2015 for operating Silk Road, a dark web site that enabled users "to buy and sell illegal drugs and other unlawful ...

Just weeks after the NYT profiled Blake Benthall about his Silk Road 2.0 role and post-prison endeavors, 404 Media has identified a co-founder, Thomas White, as its “Dread Pirate Roberts 2.0 ...

Its size and the money it generated, via Bitcoin payments, put Silk Road on the radar of law enforcement, which began a search to uncover The Dread Pirate Roberts's identity.

Ulbricht's Silk Road, operational from 2011 to 2013, functioned as a hidden marketplace accessible only through the anonymizing Tor network.

President 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.

President Trump announced Tuesday night that he had granted a "full and unconditional" pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the notorious dark web site Silk Road.

Ulbricht, who used the nom de plume “Dread Pirate Roberts” to hide his identity, was sentenced in 2015 to life in prison for founding and operating Silk Road between January 2011 and October 2013.

Source: Rumble Silk Road started in 2011 and was run and operated by Ulbricht from his personal laptop under the username “Dread Pirate Roberts.” ...