The current Roberts claims that he’s been around Silk Road since 2011. He helped shore up the site’s security and eventually assumed full control after the original Roberts decided to “pass ...

Otherwise known by his online handle "Dread Pirate Roberts," Ulbricht was sentenced to two life sentences in 2015, plus an additional 40 years, with no chance of parole for his role in creating ...

President Donald Trump pardoned the founder of darknet marketplace Silk Road, he said in a post to Truth Social on Tuesday night.. Ross William Ulbricht, known online as Dread Pirate Roberts, was ...

Why Trump Freed Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts. Ulbricht, who was convicted of running an anonymous online drug marketplace, became a hero to crypto-holders everywhere.

Ross Ulbricht, also known as "Dread Pirate Roberts," operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road between 2011 and 2013, ...

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 ...

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 effects in a netted bag and a small potted plant ...

In 2011, Ulbricht—who used the moniker “Dread Pirate Roberts”—founded Silk Road, an anonymous e-commerce site on the Tor network that allowed users to conceal their computer’s IP address ...

Just weeks after the NYT profiled Blake Benthall about his Silk Road 2.0 role and post-prison endeavors, 404 Media has identified a co-founder, Thomas White, as its “Dread Pirate Roberts 2.0 ...