In May 2015 he was sentenced to life in prison. In February 2015, Ross William Ulbricht was convicted of seven charges for being the site’s founder. It launched in 2011 and was shut down by the FBI in 2013. Approximately one million people using Silk Road made Bitcoin transactions that are estimated at US $1 billion. The dark web’s anonymity enabled people to conduct prohibited activities, the most successful of those being Silk Road, a marketplace for the trade of illegal goods.
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