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An Irish national Gary Davis, who is also known as Libertas, has pleaded guilty to charges related to drug trafficking and is now facing up to 20 years in prison. Davis is accused of running the infamous marketplace Silk Road and served as forum moderator and site administrator while he was involved in the selling […]
Silk Road makes another appearance, but will it last? A new instance of the infamous Silk Road marketplace has popped up on the Dark Web today, and this new version, dubbed Silk Road 3.0, is actually the fourth reincarnation of the site. Announced via a Reddit thread a few hours ago, Silk Road 3.0 is run […]
JUST WHEN THE Silk Road’s saga of dirty money and double-dealing seemed to be winding down, one of the federal agents who investigated the site has added an audacious footnote: What looks like a brazen attempt to flee the United States after he was convicted and sentenced to prison for corruption in his handling of […]
NOT SO LONG ago, the Silk Road was not only a bustling black market for drugs but a living representation of every cryptoanarchist’s dream: a trusted trading ground on the Internet where neither the government’s laws nor the Drug War they’ve spawned could reach. Today, that illicit narco-utopia is long gone, its once-secret server in […]
IT’S BEEN NEARLY a year since a jury determined that Ross Ulbricht had created and run the anonymous black market for drugs known as the Silk Road, a conviction that resulted in a life sentence without parole. Today his defense team finally had their chance to contest that outcome, and with it, one more chance […]
MORE THAN TWO years after Ross Ulbricht was arrested in a San Francisco and accused of creating and running the Dark Web drug bazaar known as the Silk Road, a manhunt on the other side of the world has found the man believed to be Ulbricht’s closest adviser and mentor: Variety Jones. On Friday evening, […]
The FBI has arrested a 29 year old man in San Francisco, California for allegedly owning and running an underground anonymous marketplace website Silk Road () which allowed users to buy and sell guns, drugs and other illegal stuff by using encrypted, digital currency around the globe. Ross William Ulbricht is a University of Pennsylvania […]