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

Silk Road founder pardoned by Trump 11 years into double life sentences lauds president as ‘a man of his word’ - Ross ...

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, ...

Poly MGM Museum celebrates seafaring heritage with an inaugural exhibition that brings together various rare artefacts, ...

It was just after midnight when a phone call from an unknown number woke Dorine Núñez Ávila.

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 ...

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 ...

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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.