“[Dread Pirate] Roberts isn’t actually the site’s founder, he revealed in our interview. He credits Silk Road’s creation to another, even more secretive entrepreneur whom he declined to tell me ...

Silk Road is back — and so is the Dread Pirate Roberts. A month has passed since federal agents gave the Glen Park library science fiction section the thrill of its life when they swooped in to arrest ...

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 ...

Ross Ulbricht, formerly known online by the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" (a nod to the novel "The Princess Bride"), is known today as the founder of the Silk Road marketplace, a former site on the ...

Ross Ulbrecht of Austin, Texas, is an Eagle Scout, has a degree in physics and last year gave an interview to StoryCorps that’s still on YouTube. Not the original Dread Pirate Roberts, the character ...

If the past two days are any indication, the trial of alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht could be one of the most fascinating in recent memory. On Thursday, Ulbricht's attorney Joshua Dratel ...

Federal prosecutors used chat logs and private journals Wednesday to strengthen their case that Ross Ulbricht is Dread Pirate Roberts, the anonymous mastermind who ran the Silk Road online market.

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 ...

Ross William Ulbricht was like a lot of people of his generation: he was opinionated, well read, and had a diverse education in the ways of the world. He watched as thirty slowly approached, ...

Today, not only has the Silk Road been shut down and its alleged founder arrested, but now the authorities are beginning to arrest the market's biggest and most profitable sellers. What did they do ...

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