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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 William Ulbricht (/ ˈ ʊ l b r ɪ k t /; born March 27, 1984) [1] is an American who created and operated the illegal 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.
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, an Eagle Scout from Austin, Texas, using the online pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts,” a reference to 1987 film The Princess Bride, set up the Silk Road online marketplace on the non ...
On January 21, one day into his second term, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road online marketplace. He was 11 years into a double life sentence ...
Agora was a darknet market operating in the Tor network, launched in 2013 and shut down in August 2015. Agora was unaffected by Operation Onymous, the November 2014 seizure of several darknet websites (most notably Silk Road 2.0). [3] After Evolution closed in an exit scam in March 2015, Agora replaced it as the largest darknet market. [4]
(Reuters) -U.S. 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 ...
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]