The defense team for Ross Ulbricht, convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole for his role in starting and running the darkweb sales site Silk Road, has filed a new reply brief in the ...

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 ...

On March 27, 2024, Ross Ulbricht expressed a birthday wish from prison. “Today, I turn 40,” Ulbricht had his family post on the Twitter account he uses to communicate with the outside world. “I pray I ...

Nine years ago, Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind the first major Bitcoin marketplace, Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison without parole. This week, former President Donald Trump announced ...

Ross Ulbricht has his freedom. After serving nearly 12 years in federal prison for running a notorious online drugs bazaar, Ulbricht—who went by the name Dread Pirate Roberts when he was a crime ...

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.

Ross Ulbricht is the man behind the alias “Dread Pirate Roberts”, known to be the creator and owner of the digital black market Silk Road. On February 4, 2015, he was found guilty on all seven federal ...

As the the trial of alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht unfolds, its transcript has read like a manual of things not to do when running a secret, billion-dollar online drug conspiracy. But on ...

Silk Road, for its more than two and a half years online, was an unprecedented online narcotics emporium. But according to a journal found on the laptop of its alleged creator Ross Ulbricht, Ulbricht ...

NEW YORK – Alleged Silk Road darknet mastermind Ross Ulbricht was convicted of drug conspiracy and other charges Wednesday for allegedly founding and running the drug-trafficking site that served as ...

I previously remarked how I could trace payments direct from the Silk Road to Ross Ulbricht in just a couple of mouseclicks. But why bother clicking when you can have a computer do the work for you?

Ross Ulbricht, convicted and sentenced to life in prison last year for running the darknet sales website Silk Road, had his legal team file an appeal yesterday. (I reported on his lawyer Joshua Dratel ...