Tag: Silk Road

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Increased Threat Perception, Agora on Temporary Lockdown

The second in line to Silk Road and the top dark internet market place since Silk Road shut down has temporarily suspended its services...

Dark Web Processed More Bitcoin Payments than BitPay

The dark web based sites were the first ones to adopt bitcoin after it was launched in the year 2009. The popularity of bitcoin...

Carl Force Pleads Guilty, Looks at 20 Years in a Slammer

Recently the two ex-federal agents Carl Force and Shaun Bridges were in news after agreeing to plead guilty to charges of theft, money laundering...

Fed No. 2 Carl Force to Plead Guilty in the Silk Road Case

Carl Force, the former agent with the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has followed the footsteps of his United States Secret Service counterpart...

One of the Feds to Plead Guilty for Stealing Bitcoins from Silk Road

One of the federal agents implicated for the theft of bitcoins during Silk Road investigation has confessed of his wrongdoings and agreed to plead...

Ulbricht Gets Life in Prison. Did He Deserve It?

Bitcoin can be considered a boon as well as a bane for society… (I’d say more “boon” than “bane”). Bitcoin is helping a lot...

A Minor Setback in the Bitcoin World… Nothing to Worry About

So, the price of bitcoin has dropped a bit overnight from $275 to about $267.  I am sure that there are a lot of...

Bitcoin’s Reputation Needs to be Bigger

It is always satisfying when you can give someone new knowledge or leave them with something to think about.  I like to think that...

Anoncoin Promises Privacy, but is True Privacy Ever Really Possible?

So, this is really the first time I’ve become familiar with what’s known as anoncoin.  I guess it’s probably short for “anonymous coin,” and...

Bitcoin Traders Pleaded Guilty Over Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business

Launched in 2009 as an open-source platform with a peer-to-peer architecture, Bitcoin does not only appeal for merchants and consumers who want to have...

Bitcoin Entrepreneur Pleads Guilty to Enabling Silk Road Drug Deals

Former CEO of top Bitcoin exchange, Charlie Shrem, and one of his clients, Robert Faiella, pled guilty on charges involving operating unlicensed exchange of...