At its peak, the exchange facilitated around 30% of all Bitcoin transactions, according to Shrem’s personal page. In order to offer ... on the Silk Road dark web marketplace.

Question: What's the dark web, and should I be worried about it? Answer: The term "dark web" can pop up in news stories, especially when there's a big data breach. As ominous as it sounds ...

Four Los Angeles County men were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of operating one of the dark web’s biggest drug distribution networks, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Federal ...

The Wiretap is your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. Earlier this month, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District ...

In 2010, Ulbricht started developing an online marketplace hosted on the dark web called Silk Road where users could buy and sell drugs, other illegal products and services anonymously, and hosted it ...

Ulbricht created Silk Road in 2011. He operated the website on the dark web under the alias “Dread Pirate Roberts” — a reference to a character in the 1987 movie “The Princess Bride ...

What made Ulbricht a crypto hero, ultimately, was that Silk Road had offered one of the first clear use cases for bitcoin: all transactions on the dark-Web site were made with the then nascent ...

In January 2025, a claim (archived) circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was imprisoned for operating the dark web marketplace Silk Road. "I just called the ...

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road, the very first dark-web drug-trading network ... and using bitcoin to make payments, users could order all manner of goods and services without ...

Donald Trump has used his presidential powers to pardon convicted felon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of notorious dark web marketplace Silk Road. Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015, on ...

Free Ross Photos from the Silk Road investigation. Ulbricht, now 40, was serving a life sentence after being convicted in February 2015 for his connection with the notorious dark web marketplace ...