The big question on everyone’s mind is how law enforcement got Dread Pirate Roberts, the site’s mysterious founder, who had managed to remain anonymous since launching Silk Road in 2011. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco man denies charges that he operated an encrypted website where users could anonymously shop for drugs such as heroin and LSD, his attorney said on Friday. “We deny all ...

Ulbricht's defense, which entered a plea of not guilty to seven felony charges, claimed that he came up with the idea as "an economic experiment" beginning in 2009. Silk Road launched two years later.

The Silk Road, best known for selling illegal drugs, operated as a Tor hidden service that would enable the users to browse it anonymously and securely from 2011 to 2013. Transactions on the site were ...

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 ...