The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among other products.

Ross Ulbricht—who was serving a life sentence over a conviction for running a dark web illicit drug market before being ...

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 ...

Ulbricht did not immediately respond to a request for comment made through the Free Ross campaign that advocated for his pardon. AlphaBay, similar to Ulbricht’s Silk Road, was an online ...

Ross Ulbricht, a former physics student and libertarian-leaning entrepreneur, created Silk Road in 2011. This platform allowed users to buy and sell banned and illegal drugs and goods using Bitcoin.

Chainalysis told WIRED that it tracked a $31 million Bitcoin donation to online black market Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht to a successor marketplace called Alphabay. A crypto wallet tied to the ...

Ross Ulbricht, creator of the online marketplace Silk Road, speaks at the Bitcoin Conference at the Venetian Convention & Expo Center on May 29, 2025, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

During Ross Ulbricht’s trial, federal prosecutors alleged that Silk Road facilitated more than $200 million worth of drug sales through its hidden services on the dark web. They also accused him ...