A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth ...

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

Ross Ulbricht—who was serving a life sentence over a conviction for running a dark web illicit drug market before being ...

BEIJING, July 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The 4th RCEP ( Shandong) Import Expo opened on June 27 in Linyi City, east China's ...

The legal decision marks the end of the road for a years-long legal battle over 69,370 Bitcoins, seized in 2020 from an ...

Silk Road, accessed anonymously by users on the dark web, brought in approximately $1 billion in sales, according to investigators, with Ulbricht making millions by taking a cut of each transaction.

Silk Road used an underground computer network known as "The Onion Router" or "Tor" that relays computer messages through at least three separate computer servers to disguise its users.

Update at 4:00 p.m. ET: At least two more sites were also seized. Read the full accounting of what we know about the operation so far. A year after the Silk Road 2 came online promising to revive ...

From historic mosques to cutting-edge startups, Tashkent is fast becoming a capital of contrasts — where centuries-old tradition sits alongside modern tech and architecture in Central Asia’s rising ...

Silk Road 2.0 charged commissions ranging from 5% to 8% per transaction, amounting to about $400,000 per month, court papers say. When hackers hit Silk Road's bitcoin escrow account Sept. 10 and ...

Editor’s Note: Sumnima Udas is CNN’s presenter of ‘The Silk Road: Past, Present, Future’, an epic journey from east to west along the ancient trade route, exploring how traditional culture ...