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Trump just spotlighted Ross Ulbricht, founder of the online illegal drug marketplace Silk Road. Here's why he's a hero to some.
Donald Trump is appealing to the Libertarians by promising to commute Silk Road founder Ross Ulbric…
Rebecca Rommen
The jailed founder of The Silk Road dark web marketplace is minting NFTs for charity — and a DAO has been formed to buy them and protest his imprisonment
Bidding for the Ross Ulbricht Genesis Collection of NFTs reached about $1.8 million as of late Frid…
Carla Mozée
Monero’s ‘Fluffypony’ joins Ross Ulbricht and Arthur Hayes behind bars — but for a non-crypto crime
The former developer of privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Monero, Riccardo Spagni — also known online…
Ross Ulbricht convicted of running massive illegal drug marketplace Silk Road
"As a unanimous jury has found, Ross William Ulbricht operated Silk Road - a clandestine global mar…
Natasha Bertrand
How collapsing bookshelves inspired Ross Ulbricht to launch illegal drug marketplace Silk Road
He was sort of a lost soul. He studied undergrad physics at the University of Texas Dallas, and the…
Cale Guthrie Weissman
Meet Ross Ulbricht, The Brilliant Alleged Mastermind Of Silk Road
Now, my goals have shifted. I want to use economic theory as a means to abolish the use of coercion…
Jim Edwards
More Arrests Have Been Made In Connection With Online Drug Market Silk Road, And Authorities Say More Are Coming
One of the reasons Silk Road was able to stay under wraps for so long was due to its use of Bitcoin…
Caroline Moss
'Dread Pirate Roberts' Charged In Second Silk Road Murder-For-Hire Plot Over Bitcoin Debt
Following that, Ulbricht came to believe that an "employee" of Silk Road - a site protected by the …
Jim Edwards
Alleged Silk Road Mastermind Has An Amazing Series Of Trippy Pencil Sketches On Facebook
His Facebook page contains a collection of trippy pencil sketches, featuring monsters, naked women,…
Jim Edwards
The Feds Have Been Investigating Silk Road All Summer: Here's How They Took It Down
In fact, as the indictment against him makes clear, the feds were on to Silk Road back in January 2…
Jim Edwards
The case against alleged Silk Road kingpin Ross Ulbricht doesn't look good for him - here's how he's defending himself
This is not the first time a judge has ruled that bitcoin is or acts as a proxy for money. In 2013,…
Natasha Bertrand
Ross Ulbricht's defense team argues Silk Road made buying and selling drugs safer
Mr. Ulbricht's lawyers contend in a filing on Friday that "in contrast to the government's portraya…
Shane Ferro
Silk Road's 'Dread Pirate Roberts' Used $20 Million Bitcoin Fortune To Order 6 Assassinations, According To Feds
On Wednesday, supporters also launched a legal defense fundraising campaign, along with a video of …
Jim Edwards
Authorities just took down AlphaBay, an online black market 10 times bigger than Silk Road
"What this meant, in particular, was that we could identify and disrupt the regular criminal activi…
Kif Leswing
The story of Silk Road: How to lie to yourself, build a billion dollar 'startup' and wind up in prison for life
"Friends in the real world would say things to him like, 'Why don't you try this business idea or w…
Julie Bort
Here are the methods police use to catch 'deep web' drug dealers
One high-profile example of law enforcement using public internet posts to get information on drug …
James Cook
The clever way British cops got around the encryption on a would-be terrorist's iPhone
"Via that phone we knew that they'd been in contact with Daesh fighters in Syria via text message, …
Rob Price
How an IRS agent discovered the identity of the Silk Road kingpin using Google searches
By the middle of 2013, Ulbricht had built Silk Road into a "dark web" marketplace that facilitated …
Nathan McAlone
France is reportedly considering a ban on Tor and public WiFi in the wake of the Paris attacks
Motherboard reports that France could use two different tactics to stop people using Tor: Legal and…
James Cook
One of the largest dark web drug marketplaces is closing down in a surprisingly professional manner
In contrast, Agora's decision to temporarily halt operations has been remarkably professional. Citi…