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

Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, received 300 BTC in June 2025, worth over $31 million. Blockchain analysis tied the donation to old AlphaBay darknet ...

Ross Ulbricht is a former darknet market operator most famous for creating and running the Silk Road market.He was arrested in 2013, and two years later a Manhattan federal jury found him guilty ...

The family of Ross Ulbricht on Friday said the founder of the illicit online marketplace Silk Road, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for extensive online criminal activity, would be ...

Ulbricht was arrested in 2013 and sentenced to life in prison in 2015, after he was convicted of seven charges, including distributing narcotics, ... Why Did Trump Pardon Ross Ulbricht?

How Was Ross Ulbricht Caught? Ulbricht was arrested on October 1, 2013, in a San Francisco public library. Law enforcement officials had been investigating the Silk Road for years, ...

While Bitcoin has evolved way beyond Silk Road since Ulbricht’s arrest, the controversial marketplace has historical ...

President Donald Trump has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of darknet market Silk Road, fulfilling a campaign promise. ... On the day of his arrest, bitcoin was worth just around $130.

Ross Ulbricht was arrested at 29. Now, he's 40. He faces a double life sentence plus 40 years with no possibility of parole for creating the Silk Road, a dark web drug marketplace that facilitated ...

Ross Ulbricht, founder of the now-defunct darknet drug market previously known as Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him free and hinted at his future plans in a video posted to X.

People supporting Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht’s efforts to reintegrate into society after more than 11 years in prison have opened ... Ulbricht was in San Francisco before his 2013 arrest.