When I interviewed the Dread Pirate Roberts in July of 2013, he claimed that he had actually purchased the Silk Road from its creator after helping him to patch a security flaw in the site.

THE DREAD PIRATE ROBERTS isn't shy about naming Silk Road's active ingredient: The cryptographic digital currency known as Bitcoin. "We've won the State's War on Drugs because of Bitcoin," he writes.

Dread Pirate Roberts 2.0: An interview with Silk Road’s new boss New leader wants Silk Road to publish gov't secrets; calls old DPR a "fraud." Ken Klippenstein – Feb 5, 2014 7:00 am | 116 ...

More than 14 months after his arrest, Ross Ulbricht has been convicted of being the Dread Pirate Roberts, the masked figure who ran the Silk Road's unprecedented online supermarket for drugs.But ...

He credits Silk Road’s creation to another, even more secretive entrepreneur whom he declined to tell me anything about and who may have used the ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’ nom de guerre before ...

Ross William Ulbricht, allegedly the 'Dread Pirate Roberts' owner of Silk Road, was arrested in San Francisco on Tues. at 3:15pm PT at a public library and his popular site shut down.

The trial is currently adjourned by Judge Katherine Forrest, who said “The defense has been building a picture all afternoon that Karpeles was Dread Pirate Roberts or a Dread Pirate Roberts.

MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal jury wasted no time in fingering Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht on Wednesday as the underground website’s elusive leader, Dread Pirate Roberts. The clock had barely struck ...

They sell pure cocaine in Colombia or Peru. There are over six thousand drugs available to be distributed in any part of the world. It was in June 2011, just days after U.S. blogger Adrian Chen has un ...

Silk Road's 'Dread Pirate Roberts' Used $20 Million Bitcoin Fortune To Order 6 Assassinations, ... But no one in "real" life knew he was "the Dread Pirate Roberts" — not even his girlfriend.

Just over a month after the illicit drug-dealing website Silk Road was shut down and its alleged founder arrested, the site relaunched Wednesday morning.