Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht to make first public appearance since pardon at upcoming Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas.

You may be familiar with the saga of illegal drug market the Silk Road, but that is just one small part of what is commonly called the "dark web." Accessible only ...

Between 2011 and 2013, a now-infamous online shop on the dark web called Silk Road let users buy and sell things — primarily items of questionable legality — with Bitcoin (BTC) as its method ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is free after ... In that same photo the 40-year-old who'd been known as "Dread Pirate Roberts" on the dark web marketplace he founded was also seen holding his ...

The Silk Road, a dark web marketplace that used Bitcoin as its currency, was a pioneering use of cryptocurrency but also a hub for illicit activity. While there was no evidence Ulbricht directly ...

U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of dark web marketplace Silk Road. Rating: In early March 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened sweeping tariffs on imports from ...

What the seizure shows is that while Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht is now ... others who sold narcotics on the dark web site remain under investigation and their illicit proceeds are still ...

Ulbricht ran Silk Road, the now infamous site that made history as the first dark web marketplace, offering a cornucopia of banned drugs in exchange for the then-nascent cryptocurrency Bitcoin.