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Ross William Ulbricht (/ ˈ ʊ l b r ɪ k t /; born March 27, 1984) [1] is an American who created and operated the darknet market Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. Silk Road was an online marketplace that facilitated the trade in narcotics and other illegal products and services.
Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market. [7] It was launched in 2011 by its American founder Ross Ulbricht under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts". As part of the dark web, [8] Silk Road operated as a hidden service on the Tor network, allowing users to buy and sell products and services between each other ...
Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for drug trafficking, computer hacking, and money laundering.
Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, a first of its kind in the modern era, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him free and hinted at what he has planned for his future.
Ulbricht created Silk Road in 2011 under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts”, a reference to Rob Reiner’s popular fantasy film The Princess Bride (1987), and ran it for two years on the ...
The Silk Road [a] was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. [1] Spanning over 6,400 km (4,000 mi), it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs. Ulbricht had been sentenced to life in prison in 2015 after a high-profile prosecution that highlighted the role of the internet in illegal markets.
Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the website Silk Road, appears in an undated photograph made from his computer and presented as an exhibit during his 2015 criminal trial in New York federal court.