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 wallets. The donor’s identity remains unknown, ...

A $31 million Bitcoin donation made to Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is believed to have originated from AlphaBay. This notorious dark web market succeeded Silk Road and once dwarfed it in scale.

An auction of personal belongings from Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht has brought in more than $1.8 million worth of Bitcoin as collectors vied for pieces of crypto history. Ulbricht, who was ...

Crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis says the mysterious 300-bitcoin donation to the pardoned Silk Road creator appears to have come from an illicit source associated with the dark web. Now cryptocurrency ...

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 ...

The 12-year campaign to free Ross Ulbricht — the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road, the original crypto-enabled dark web mail-order-drug emporium — finally ended in January, when newly-minted ...

Ross Ulbricht, formerly known online by the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" (a nod to the novel "The Princess Bride"), is known today as the founder of the Silk Road marketplace, a former site on the ...