Richard Quest explores the historic Silk Road trading hub of Samarkand, as well as the city’s famous Madrasas.

Ross Ulbricht, a former physics student and libertarian-leaning entrepreneur, created Silk Road in 2011. This platform allowed users to buy and sell banned and illegal drugs and goods using Bitcoin.

Accounts associated with the now-defunct dark web marketplace AlphaBay were able to connect a $31 million Bitcoin gift to Ross Ulbricht, the pardoned creator of Silk Road bazaar.

AlphaBay, similar to Ulbricht’s Silk Road, was an online marketplace that dealt in illegal goods and services like drugs and stolen data. It operated between 2014 to 2017, before resurfacing ...

From spending 10 years in imprisonment for his creation, Silk Road, to allegations of hiding a million dollars worth of funds after Donald Trump’s pardon, Ross Ulbricht is again in the news. Just a ...

In this post: The closely monitored $31 million Bitcoin donation to Ross Ulbricht is suspected to have originated from AlphaBay, Silk Road’s dark web successor. Chainalysis and ZachXBT traced the ...

Chainalysis told WIRED that it tracked a $31 million Bitcoin donation to online black market Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht to a successor marketplace called Alphabay. A crypto wallet tied to the ...

Ross Ulbricht, the former founder of the now-defunct drug trafficking site Silk Road, recently received an anonymous donation of 300 Bitcoins, worth around $31 million, according to reporting from ...

Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the infamous Silk Road marketplace, recently received a staggering $31 million worth of Bitcoin. However, the origins of this significant donation raise more questions ...

Ross Ulbricht received an unexpected $31 million Bitcoin donation last weekend that initially sparked rumors about hidden Silk Road funds. However, blockchain investigators have traced the money to a ...

The ashes of the darknet blow on the present AlphaBay is not just a name in the FBI archives. It’s a myth recycled in the depths of the blockchain. Between 2014 and 2017, it was the epicenter of ...