Governments have so corrupted money that we forget that sound money, by providing both fungibility and privacy, has been a defense against overreaching ...

How crypto investigator ZachXBT exposed the source of 300 BTC sent to Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, using advanced tracing methods.

Last week, one of the dark web's most prominent drug marketplaces – Archetyp – was shut down in an international, multi-agency law enforcement operat ...

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, formerly known online by the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" (a nod to the novel "The Princess Bride"), is known today as the founder of the Silk Road marketplace, a former site on the ...

Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Dark Web Marketplace Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for drug trafficking, computer hacking, and money laundering By Charisma Madarang ...

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. The rumor was true.

Fresh off receiving a “full and unconditional pardon” from President Trump, sparing him from two life sentences, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was spotted in a new photograph… ...

Silk Road was a dark web site accessible via the open source, decentralized Tor browser. It supported anonymized transactions ...

Silk Road, a shadowy e-commerce site operating on the dark web, was shut down by the FBI in October 2013. Ulbricht’s arrest followed shortly after authorities traced his email address posted online.

NEWLY-INAUGURATED US President Donald Trump has given the founder of dark web marketplace Silk Road a full and unconditional pardon. The decision has saved Ross Ulbricht from serving two life sente… ...