The Silk Road, best known for selling illegal drugs, operated as a Tor hidden service that would enable the users to browse it anonymously and securely from 2011 to 2013. Transactions on the site were ...

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.

Today a judge sentenced Ross Ulbricht to life in prison for charges stemming from his involvement in the online underground marketplace Silk Road. Allowing its users to hide behind Bitcoin and 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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco man denies charges that he operated an encrypted website where users could anonymously shop for drugs such as heroin and LSD, his attorney said on Friday. “We deny all ...

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 ...