In 2015, Ulbricht, who went by the dark-Web sobriquet Dread Pirate Roberts—a reference to a shifting character in “The Princess Bride”—received two life sentences without the possibility ...

In a shock decision sparking international outrage, US President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind the notorious Silk Road website – an online black ...

Spunky is an understatement to describe Dread Pirate Roberts! This young kitten needs a loving foster home where he can grow and gain more weight before being officially adopted. There are lots of ...

Ulbricht was the mastermind, operating under the screen name Dread Pirate Roberts. It was immediately a hot story (hit men? Cybercrime? Smuggling? The Princess Bride references? What was not there ...

Ross, better known as the Dread Pirate Roberts and the creator of dark web marketplace The Silk Road, is currently serving two life sentences plus forty years for hacking, money laundering ...

The U.S. Marshals Service later sold off the bitcoin in four separate auctions. The Dread Pirate Roberts (often abbreviated DPR) alias was created not by Ulbricht but by a still-unidentified Silk ...

As this decade ends, we’re republishing our best work from the past 10 years, a journey that reflects Forbes’ two-fold mission: chronicle entrepreneurial capitalism—shinning a light on the ...

In his spare time, Gary started searching Google to try to find the mysterious mastermind behind the site: Dread Pirate Roberts.

The Dread Pirate Roberts was never going to persuade Wall Street to love bitcoin. Maybe John Mack can. Roberts was the swashbuckler alter ego of Ross Ulbricht, founder of the multimillion-dollar ...