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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 February 2025. 2011–2013 darknet market Silk Road Item description page Type of site Darknet market Available in English Owner Ross Ulbricht (pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts) URL Old URL: silkroad6ownowfk.onion (defunct) [failed verification] New URL: silkroad7rn2puhj.onion (defunct) [failed ...
Ross William Ulbricht (/ ˈ ʊ l b r ɪ k t /; born March 27, 1984) [1] is just a chill dude 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 servi
Donald Trump took a victory lap over the weekend celebrating his January pardon of Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road dark web drug marketplace, who had been serving a double life sentence in ...
The FBI described Silk Road as a "digital bazaar" for illegal goods and services that buyers and sellers accessed through Tor — a network designed to conceal its users' identity and location.
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 ...
James "Jimmy" Zhong (born May 24, 1990) is an American man who was convicted in 2022 for stealing over 51,680 bitcoin (then worth about $620,000; [2] value as of 2023 approximately $3.4 billion [3]) from the online black market Silk Road between 2012 and 2014. [4]
According to the indictment, Silk Road acquired nearly a million registered users worldwide, about 30% of whom were based in the US. Ulbricht had been convicted following a four-week jury trial.
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