Ross Ulbricht received a presidential pardon for his crimes related to the Silk Road. Let's take a look at the tech stack behind the Silk Road website, which included LAMP stack, PHP, Linux, Tor, and Cryptocurrency.

While the Western world struggles with rising grocery bills and gas prices, the economy of the dark web—the digital black market—is chugging along as usual. Inflation doesn’t seem to have...

President Trump announced that he signed a full pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road founder who was sentenced to life in prison.

The Delhi Crime Branch dismantled an international dark web drug cartel, seizing 6 kilograms of hydroponic weed worth over Rs 2 crore. The operation, part of Operation Kawach, targeted illicit substances before the Delhi Assembly elections,

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.

A 58-year-old man from Wokingham who sold large quantities of pharmaceutical drugs on the dark web has been jailed.

Ulbricht was given two life sentences, plus 40 years for running a site that allegedly facilitated $183m in drug sales.

The news doesn't come as a surprise, however. Trump committed to the first-day pardoning of Ulbricht when speaking at the Libertarian National Convention in May 2024. The President said the decision to pardon the Silk Road founder was "in honor" of Ulbricht's mother, who had campaigned for his release.

Ulbricht launched 'Silk Road', a darknet marketplace he envisioned as a freewheeling, anonymous platform for trade, powered by cryptocurrency

Donald Trump has made good on his promise to pardon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for running an underground online marketplace where drug dealers and others conducted more than $200 million in illicit trade using bitcoin.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening said he issued a full and unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark web Silk Road marketplace for illicit drugs.