The suspected mastermind of the underground website Silk Road has been convicted of creating a multi-million dollar online marketplace for illegal drugs.<br /><br /> A federal jury in New York took under a day to find Ross Ulbricht, 30, guilty on all seven counts following investigations into use of the digital currency bitcoin to commit crimes.<br /><br /> His mother claimed the defence had been hindered in arguing he had been framed.<br /><br /> “I think it was unfair, I think it was not a level playing field. We didn’t get to, three of our witnesses did not get to testify. A lot of the evidence, a big bulk of evidence, was not allowed to be presented. And evidence that was presented was stricken, and so the whole picture wasn’t presented,” Lyn Ulbricht said afterwards.<br /><br /> Prosecutors argued Ulbricht used the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts to broker deals promising anonymity – but law enforcers exposed him.<br /><br /> “I think what it does show is that the government has the ability to infiltrate and prosecute hackers and
