The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among other products.

The Silk Road's libertarian free-trade zone has devolved into a fragmented, less ethical, and far less trusted collection of scam-ridden black markets.

In Silk Road forums, users could even discuss murders-for-hire. In the three years of its existence, Silk Road racked up more than $200 million in total sales revenue, with Ulbricht taking a cut ...

A Georgia man who stole 50,000 Bitcoin, now worth potentially billions of dollars, from the dark web market Silk Road in September 2012 has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, the Justice Department ...

David Ryan Burchard, 38, allegedly used "caliconnect" as his alias on the now-defunct Silk Road and apparently used similar usernames on Silk Road's successor site and then on other dark web ...

‘Silk Road’: As one driven man aids online crime, another tries to stop him High-speed thriller details the big business of selling drugs and weapons on the dark web.

The founder of Silk Road, a site on the dark web for selling drugs and other contraband items, has called President Donald Trump “a man of his word” after he was pardoned this week.. Trump ...

Update at 4:00 p.m. ET: At least two more sites were also seized. Read the full accounting of what we know about the operation so far. A year after the Silk Road 2 came online promising to revive ...

Federal authorities have arrested a California man for allegedly operating a new Silk Road marketplace, the freewheeling online bazaar for drugs and other illegal goods that the FBI shut down last ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht expressed his heartfelt gratitude to President Trump on Thursday in his first public remarks ...