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Ross Ulbricht
American founder and administrator of the illicit online marketplace the Silk Road
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alive
- born
- 1984
- died
- no date on record
- age
- 42
- known for
- computer scientist, hacker, visual artist
born 1984

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who ross ulbricht is
Ross William Ulbricht is an American cybercriminal who created and operated Silk Road, the first modern darknet market, from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. Silk Road was an online marketplace that facilitated the trade in narcotics and other illegal products and services. Sales were anonymous, using bitcoin. It operated as a hidden service on the Tor network. Ulbricht ran the site under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" after the fictional character from The Princess Bride.
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wikidata has no date of death on file for Ross Ulbricht, and they’d be 42 today — so as far as the record goes, still here. your browser re-checks this against wikidata on every visit, so it’s current even if the page itself was cached a while ago.
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