A second chance for the creator of the dark web drug site the Silk Road might be coming…from an unlikely savior.

Lord knows it's probably not smart to hold politicians accountable to their campaign promises. But President-elect Donald ...

It operates completely anonymously, existing to the outside world only as a so-called “hidden service” on the Tor network, run by a user who is known to others only as “Dread Pirate Roberts”. It ...

contraband and was run by this guy who called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts in a lovely homage to The Princess Bride — great film. But they transacted exclusively in bitcoin. And when that ...

The character has since inspired a variety of characters, the most obvious being the Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride -- however, core elements of his formula also went into Batman.