After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

WASHINGTON — An Austin native who was sentenced to life in prison for founding a dark web marketplace that specialized in illegal drug sales has been pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump pardoned the creator of the world’s first dark-web drug market, who is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some ...

Silk Road founder pardoned by Trump 11 years into double life sentences lauds president as ‘a man of his word’ - Ross Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 for running a site on the dark web that sold drugs ...

Ulbricht, a 40-year-old native of Austin ... In 2011, Ulbricht—who used the moniker “Dread Pirate Roberts”—founded Silk Road, an anonymous e-commerce site on the Tor network that allowed ...

and Ulbricht – 26 years old at the time of its inception – was its Godfather. A decade on from its foundation, Ulbricht and his ill-advised project are getting the movie treatment: Silk Road ...

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The California mother of two was in bed after dropping her 16-year-old son, Alejandro ... died after overdosing on drugs purchased on Silk Road, a now-defunct online marketplace where users ...

Among them, was a 27-year-old Microsoft employee who was found unresponsive in front of his computer, which was logged into Silk Road. He had died of a heroin and prescription drug overdose.