Nearly $2 billion worth of forfeited bitcoin (BTC) linked to the Silk Road website were moved to crypto exchange Coinbase Prime on Monday. A wallet tagged as "U.S. Government: Silk Road DOJ ...
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would not hear a case about who owns more than $4.3 billion in bitcoin tied to Silk Road, the now-defunct online black marketplace created by Ross ...
And youd be mostly right. Adelstein delivers a captivating memoir centered on the fall of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the ...
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with additional information. The U.S. government has received approval to liquidate a significant portion of its Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) holdings seized from ...
But this week, the bitcoin community was hit with a story potentially bigger than all the others: the seizure of the illicit Silk Road website and the arrest of its founder, Ross William Ulbricht, a ...
Point-of-sale terminal maker Ingenico Group has teamed up with Bitcoin merchant acquirer BitPay Inc. to retrofit a traditional POS terminal for Bitcoin acceptance in stores. And the U.S. Marshals ...
The long and winding road that led the 33-year-old founder of the "dark web" site Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, to life in prison without parole in 2015 is inextricably caught up in the history of the ...
What just happened? A federal judge has given the Department of Justice the green light to sell off thousands of Bitcoins tied to the government's shutdown of the Silk Road online black market. A ...
Reports of the U.S. possibly liquidating most of its Bitcoin holdings seized from the Silk Road darknet marketplace may be more impactful for short-term traders than for long-term spot holders, ...
Last fall, the government shut down the Silk Road, an online drug market. In the process of taking down the Silk Road, federal agents seized 29,656 Bitcoins. Just as with any other bust of this kind, ...
Here’s some not-so-surprising news for you: federal prosecutors apparently think it’s perfectly fine to hack into American citizens’ computerswithout first obtaining a warrant. After all, that’s how ...