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Ross Ulbricht

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Ross William Ulbricht (born March 27, 1984) is an American serving life imprisonment for creating and operating the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. The site operated as a hidden service on the Tor network and facilitated the sale of narcotics and other illegal products and services. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ross Ulbricht has received more than 8,662,074 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ross Ulbricht is the 197th most popular extremist (down from 183rd in 2019), the 5,133rd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,262nd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Extremist.

Ross Ulbricht is an American convicted for creating and operating the Silk Road market, the first modern darknet market and online black market best known for selling illegal drugs. He was arrested in 2013 and later convicted on charges including money laundering, computer hacking, and trafficking drugs over the Internet, for which he is currently serving a double life sentence plus 40 years in federal prison.

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  • 8.7M

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  • 57.16

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  • 24

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  • 12.01

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  • 1.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ross Ulbricht ranks 197 out of 283. Before him are Ramadan Shalah, Luis Posada Carriles, Yoo Young-chul, Mohamed Atta, Richard Speck, and Stanley Williams. After him are Mary Surratt, Charles Starkweather, Stand Watie, Ronald DeFeo Jr., Frank James, and Abu Ayyub al-Masri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Ross Ulbricht ranks 38. Before him are Olivia Wilde, Pavel Durov, Nigel de Jong, Samir Handanović, Branislav Ivanović, and Lena Katina. After him are Per Mertesacker, Marija Šerifović, Mathieu Valbuena, Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland, Badr Hari, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ross Ulbricht ranks 5,133 out of 20,380. Before him are Jack Irons (1962), Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (1918), Paul Arizin (1928), Greta Gerwig (1983), Johnny Thunders (1952), and Carlos Hathcock (1942). After him are Elizabeth Strout (1956), Tony Accardo (1906), James Thurber (1894), Eileen Heckart (1919), Stephen Root (1951), and Sid Haig (1939).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Ross Ulbricht ranks 62. Before him are Bugs Moran (1893), Andrew Cunanan (1969), Carl Panzram (1892), John Wesley Hardin (1853), Richard Speck (1941), and Stanley Williams (1953). After him are Mary Surratt (1823), Charles Starkweather (1938), Stand Watie (1806), Ronald DeFeo Jr. (1951), Frank James (1843), and Herbert Mullin (1947).

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