Officials estimate the original Silk Road conducted $1 billion in business, serving more than 100,000 customers. A similar number of purchasers used the second Silk Road 2.0, which did about $8 ...

The gram of marijuana Forbes bought with bitcoins on the Silk Road black market. Researcher Sarah Meikeljohn was able to identify the purchase by following our bitcoins' path into the Silk ...

Ross Ulbricht, 31, faced anywhere from 20 years to life in prison for his role in running Silk Road under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts." Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

Named after the historical network of trade routes that connected Europe and Asia, the Silk Road was an online black market founded in February 2011 by the pseudonymous “Dread Pirate Roberts ...

Roger Thomas Clark, also known as Variety Jones, will spend much of the rest of his life in prison for his key role in building the world’s first dark-web drug market.

The Silk Road, the ancient trading route that spanned from Asia toward the West, is where we find journalist Paul Salopek these days. Salopek began his "Out of Eden" walk four years ago in ...

East-West trade is booming across the Caucasus and many are hailing it as the latest incarnation of the Silk Road or Great Silk Route, the overland supply chain that allowed the supply of Chinese ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for running an underground online marketplace where drug dealers and others ...

Trump pardons founder of drug marketplace whose case was championed by libertarians. Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison for owning and operating Silk Road, a dark web marketplace for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs.