Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market. [7] It was launched in 2011 by its American founder Ross Ulbricht under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts". As part of the dark web, [8] Silk Road operated as a hidden service on the Tor network, allowing users to buy and sell products and services between each other ...

Jan 27, 2025 · Silk Road was the first modern darknet market, known for providing a platform to buy and sell illegal drugs and promoting other illicit activities. The site was accessible through the anonymous Tor network and used Bitcoin for transactions.

Jan 24, 2025 · Silk Road was a digital black market platform that was popular for hosting money laundering activities and illegal drug transactions using Bitcoin. Silk Road, regarded as the first darknet...

Jan 22, 2025 · President Donald Trump said Tuesday he issued a pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison nearly a decade ago for creating the Silk Road, a website law enforcement called...

May 14, 2015 · Silk Road emerged as the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet, serving as a sprawling black-market bazaar where unlawful goods and services, including illegal drugs of virtually all varieties, were bought and sold regularly by the site’s users.

Jan 27, 2025 · 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 21, 2025 · In its nearly three years of existence, Silk Road, which operated in a shady corner of the internet known as the dark web, became an international drug marketplace, facilitating more than 1.5 ...

Jan 22, 2025 · President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening said he issued a full and unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark web Silk Road marketplace for illicit drugs.

Jan 22, 2025 · Ulbricht ran Silk Road under the alias Dread Pirate Roberts, a reference to a character in the 1987 film The Princess Bride. The marketplace itself took its name from the historic trade routes ...

May 18, 2024 · As the internet’s first widely used dark web market, Silk Road has a wild and seedy history, and it played a significant role in the emergence of Bitcoin. Learn all about Silk Road’s rise and fall and the dark web marketplaces that replaced it.