Silk Road’s ‘largest drug-trafficking vendor’ pleads guilty in court The first brick in the Silk Road crumbles under legal pressure. Fran Berkman. Updated on May 31 2021 8:31 am CDT ...

Silk Road brokered more than $1 billion in sales and its site listed nearly 13,000 offerings of illegal drugs and services. Those were paid for using a digital currency known as Bitcoins.

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." ...

Dark-web drug transactions increased 50 percent between 2013--the year the FBI shut down the Silk Road--and January 2016, according to a new report from the United Nations.

FBI Agent Christopher Tarbell in an affidavit called the Silk Road website a "sprawling black-market bazaar where illegal drugs and other illicit goods and services" are regularly bought and sold.

The Silk Road, after all, became a bustling online drug bazaar by giving users a new way to deal in contraband anonymously. On the site and dozens of copycats that followed its takedown by law ...

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April 30, 2014 — -- In September, the FBI arrested the man alleged to be running Silk Road, an underground website known as a hidden online haven for drug trafficking, and a federal judge ...

On Silk Road, they can get a better product and with fewer negative risks associated with buying drugs on the street. Criminals and pariahs are often the harbingers of what’s to come, offering ...

Silk Road, the now-shuttered underground website where people could buy and sell illegal goods, was often referred to as the “eBay for drugs,” implying that end users were the ones buying the ...

Silk Road was an online black market bazaar where visitors could buy and sell hard drugs Sales were in bitcoins%2C an independent form of online cash FBI nabbed site mastermind Ross Ulbricht at a ...