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

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 ...

A jury convicted the now-40-year-old in February 2015 of seven counts ... Ulbricht, known by the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts,” founded Silk Road in 2011. Its services were available ...

The California mother of two was in bed after dropping her 16-year-old son, Alejandro ... died after overdosing on drugs purchased on Silk Road, a now-defunct online marketplace where users ...

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and Ulbricht – 26 years old at the time of its inception – was its Godfather. A decade on from its foundation, Ulbricht and his ill-advised project are getting the movie treatment: Silk Road ...