Let’s back up a bit. Silk Road was a site that Ulbricht created in 2011 on the dark web, a part of the internet that is not accessible through today’s traditional search engines. The site only ...

Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, creator of the Silk Road dark web marketplace. January 21, ... and has gotten close to so-called "techno libertarians," like Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Read more on dark web marketplaces: Dark Web Market Revenues Sink 50% in 2022. Silk Road also pioneered Amazon-like features such as user ratings, consumer reviews and even an online forum, designed ...

For close to two and a half years after Ulbricht created the Silk Road in 2011, the dark-web site facilitated the sale of vast amounts of narcotics, as well as counterfeit documents, money ...

Ulbricht, who used the nom de plume “Dread Pirate Roberts” to hide his identity, was sentenced in 2015 to life in prison for founding and operating Silk Road between January 2011 and October 2013.

In its nearly three years of existence, Silk Road, which operated in a shady corner of the internet known as the dark web, became an international drug marketplace, facilitating more than 1.5 ...