Ross Ulbricht, the convicted mastermind behind the Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in a New York courtroom on Friday. During the 2.5 hour-long session, the court heard ...

Ross Ulbricht, creator of the underground website Silk Road, which let users anonymously buy and sell anything from drugs to hacking tutorials, was sentenced Friday to life in prison after he made ...

Ross Ulbricht, also known as "Dread Pirate Roberts," operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road between 2011 and 2013, when law enforcement shut the site down and arrested him ...

Ross Ulbricht Gets Life Sentence for Silk Road Conviction The sentence is a miscarriage of justice, and will likely harm drug users down the road. Brian Doherty | 5.29.2015 4:02 PM ...

Silk Road employee Andrew Jones, who had established a 'secret handshake' with Ulbricht in 2012 to confirm his identity, did not believe that the late DPR was Ulbricht, either.

As I blogged, on day one of Ross Ulbricht's trial, for various charges connected to running the shut-down website Silk Road, used by many to exchange bitcoin for illegal items including drugs, his ...

Ulbricht supporters including the Silk Road founder’s mother, the Libertarian Party, and crypto activists lobbied Trump for years to pardon Ulbricht, and secured commitments from presidential ...

Five full months have passed since the defense team for Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht launched their appeal for a new trial.That 170-page argument represents Ulbricht’s last hope of escaping a ...

Silk Road Darknet mastermind Ross Ulbricht has lost his appeal of the life-behind-bars sentence he received for founding and running an online marketplace that made illegal drug purchases ...

The Silk Road trial verdict is in: Ross Ulbricht is the drug-trafficking criminal mastermind Dread Pirate Roberts, at least in the eyes of the Federal. Skip to content Gizmodo. Search .

Ulbricht’s journals began before Silk Road was even launched, according to police. Originally hoping for a 2010 launch date, Silk Road went live in January 2011.

This is an opinion editorial by Aaron Daniel, an appellate attorney and author of “The Bitcoin Brief,” and William D. Mueller, an appellate attorney with a nationwide practice.. Following a multi-week ...