NEW YORK – Alleged Silk Road darknet mastermind Ross Ulbricht was convicted of drug conspiracy and other charges Wednesday for allegedly founding and running the drug-trafficking site that ...

Federal agents arrested a San Francisco man they say resurrected and operated the dark Web online drug bazaar "Silk Road" that generated $8 million in monthly sales and attracted 150,000 vendors ...

First entry into Anatolia, an important city on the Silk Road trade route in the Middle Ages. (Credit: Mazur Travel/Shutterstock) The Han Chinese court welcomed Western trade for one of the first ...

It was the culmination of a two-year investigation into a vast online drug market called Silk Road. The authorities charged that Ulbricht, an idealistic 29-year-old Eagle Scout from Austin ...

Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. Trump, who first proposed to pardon the Silk Road creator during his 2024 presidential campaign, announced his clemency on ...

Jake Shi / Investopedia Silk Road was a digital black market platform that was popular for hosting money laundering activities and illegal drug transactions using Bitcoin. Silk Road, regarded as ...

The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese. It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started from China and passed through Central Asia, West Asia ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities were likely large urban centers that now point ...