Ulbricht's defense, which entered a plea of not guilty to seven felony charges, claimed that he came up with the idea as "an economic experiment" beginning in 2009. Silk Road launched two years later.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ross Ulbricht, formerly known online by the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" (a nod to the novel "The Princess Bride"), is known ...

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 is a pioneer of dark web commerce: the place where people go to buy and sell stuff that isn’t necessarily legal. That’s what landed him in jail, after authorities finally caught up with him ...

He was there to tell the jury that Ross Ulbricht had confessed everything to him about Silk Road, the black market that grew into a multimillion-dollar empire in just two years. Ulbricht is currently ...

San Quentin, I hate every inch of you A New York jury has found Ross Ulbricht guilty on all counts related to the Silk Road darknet bazaar. Ulbricht was arrested… San Quentin, I hate every inch of you ...

President Donald Trump granted a full pardon on Tuesday to Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road. The infamous dark web marketplace served as a global hub for illicit drug sales that prosecutors said ...

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In a heart-felt keynote speech closing out Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas on Thursday, Ulbricht, addressing the public in-person for the first time since being released from prison in January, shared a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The claim about Trump pardoning Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road, was true. Furthermore, Ulbricht attended Trump's speech in ...