Crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis says the mysterious 300-bitcoin donation to the pardoned Silk Road creator appears to have ...

The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among other ...

Ross Ulbricht’s recent receipt of 300 Bitcoin is from “questionable sources,” but it’s unlikely to be a case where he donated ...

Playing whack-a-mole with black markets is a war nobody ever really wins. At 3:15PM Tuesday afternoon, the FBI arrested the alleged Dread Pirate Roberts, the operator of online black market site ...

In the year since Senator Joe Manchin called for the "audacious" drug-selling website Silk Road to be "shut down ... with just six months ago, its black market business is booming.

“The online black market economy has done a complete somersault in the six months since the fall of the original Silk Road,” the watchdog group has found. “New players have arisen, including ...

A crypto wallet tied to the defunct darknet market Alphabay was behind a 300 Bitcoin donation to Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, Chainalysis told WIRED.

The online black market Silk Road was shut down last week by the federal government after over two year of operating with impunity. The site, which operated on the anonymizing Tor network ...

But a series of arrests this month, including the bust of the black market site Silk Road, shows the G-men have infiltrated the Internet's back alley. Computer experts suspect the government ...

Ross Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind behind Silk Road — the online marketplace that used bitcoin for transactions — is on trial this week. Ulbricht’s defense: he was set up by the real ...

For two and a half years, the Dread Pirate Roberts and his Silk Road black market ruled the Dark Web. But last year's FBI's takedown of that narcotics smorgasbord opened the underground trade to ...

President Donald Trump issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road dark web black market, Tuesday. “I just called the mother of Ross William ...