and twelve the silk road was created by ross albright who was known under the pseudonym as dread pirate roberts the web site was designed to use for tor and big and allowed people to buy and sell whatever they wanted as long as they weren't hurting anyone else the widespread adoption of the coin and the invisibility of the dark web allowed silk road to quickly become the world's drug marketplace and dread pirate roberts to become one of the world's biggest drug kingpins in two thousand and thirteen he was arrested he is currently serving a double life sentence plus forty years without the possibility of parole meanwhile during that same time after steadily making gains big queen was worth one dollar for the first time in two thousand and eleven by june of that year big quinn was worth over thirty dollars but then it took a hit and drop back down to ten dollars and that want to be the last time because when prices took a hit over the next few years big. increases in popularity and after hitting the thousand dollar price value for the first time in two thousand and thirteen it quickly begins to d