Ross William Ulbricht (/ ˈ ʊ l b r ɪ k t /; born March 27, 1984) [1] is an American who created and operated the darknet market Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. Silk Road was an online marketplace that facilitated the trade in narcotics and other illegal products and services.

Jan 22, 2025 · A little over 11 years and three months ago, Ross Ulbricht was arrested in the science fiction section of a public library in San Francisco, caught with his laptop still logged in to the Silk Road ...

Jan 23, 2025 · The Silk Road platform was shut down in 2013 with the arrest of Ulbricht. In 2015, the then-31-year-old was found guilty and convicted of seven crimes including the distribution of dangerous drugs ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Silk Road's innovative mail order using bitcoin, combined with user reviews of sellers, imposed some real market discipline on dealers, kept buyers from the occasional dangers of physically ...

Jan 23, 2025 · Until, of course, in 2013 the Silk Road was shut down by FBI agents and Mr Ulbricht, then 29 years old, was arrested in the science-fiction section of a San Francisco public library. In 2015 ...

Jan 22, 2025 · US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold. Ulbricht was ...

May 29, 2015 · Ulbricht deliberately operated Silk Road as an online criminal marketplace intended to enable its users to buy and sell drugs and other illegal goods and services anonymously and outside the reach of law enforcement. Ulbricht sought to anonymize transactions on Silk Road in two principal ways.

May 2, 2024 · Ulbricht was convicted for his role in creating the darknet marketplace Silk Road. FREEROSS.ORG. On March 27, 2024, Ross Ulbricht expressed a birthday wish from prison. “Today, I turn 40,”...

6 days ago · In 2011, Ulbricht, an Eagle Scout from Austin, Texas, founded Silk Road, an online black market that existed until his arrest, in 2013, for crimes related to drug trafficking, money laundering ...

Jan 24, 2025 · Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark web marketplace Silk Road, has been granted a full Presidential pardon by Donald Trump, albeit a little later than originally promised. Trump said those who sentenced Ulbricht were “scum.”