American founder and administrator of the illicit online marketplace the Silk Road
Ross William Ulbricht is an American who created the darknet market website Silk Road and operated it from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. The site used Tor for anonymity and bitcoin as a currency and facilitated the sale of narcotics and other illegal sales. One of Ulbricht's online pseudonyms was "Dread Pirate Roberts" after the fictional character in the novel The Princess Bride and its film adaptation.
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