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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.
Supporters of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged creator and operator of the Silk Road underground market, stand in front of a Manhattan federal courthouse on the first day of jury selection for his trial ...
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 ...
Ulbricht, known by the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts,” founded Silk Road in 2011. Its services were available globally and could be accessed via a Tor browser, which protects users’ anonymity.
Ulbricht ran Silk Road under the alias Dread Pirate Roberts, a reference to a character in the 1987 film The Princess Bride. The marketplace itself took its name from the historic trade routes ...
President Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of the darknet market Silk Road. [25] President Trump orders the closure of all federal DEI offices, with existing employees placed on indefinite leave and special orders to prevent them from being protected through reclassification or deceptive wording. [26]