On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a ...

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.

Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the website Silk Road, in a photograph presented as an exhibit during his 2015 criminal trial in New York federal court (US Attorney’s Office for the Southern ...

Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of online drug marketplace Silk Road who became a hero for America’s libertarian movement. The US president allowed Mr ...

What Is The Silk Road? The Silk Road was an online marketplace where more than 100,000 users traded illegal drugs and other illegal goods while laundering hundreds of millions of dollars ...

According to the government, Individual X hacked the Silk Road and stole the Bitcoins in question. The 69,370 Bitcoins have a street value of more than $6.3 billion.

According to the indictment, Silk Road acquired nearly a million registered users worldwide, about 30% of whom were based in the US. Ulbricht had been convicted following a four-week jury trial.

Ulbricht operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road when law enforcement arrested him. The pardon fulfills a campaign pledge Trump made to Ulbricht's Libertarian supporters.

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.

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 ...