The legal decision marks the end of the road for a years-long legal battle over 69,370 Bitcoins, seized in 2020 from an unidentified hacker referred to in court documents as “In ...

Could the closure of the world's most notorious virtual black market pave the way for a cryptocurrency’s long term success?Silk Road is an online black marketplace that was operated as a Tor hidde ...

Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht will see his $183 million debt wiped out following the seizure of $3 billion in bitcoin connected to an unnamed Silk Road hacker, according to a court filing.. In ...

According to an IRS-CI affidavit detailing Zhong's theft of the 50,000-plus bitcoins from the Silk Road, he appears to have found a vulnerability in that dark-web market that in 2012 allowed him ...

Silk Road reported a massive bitcoin theft Jan. 25, 2013, the same day Bridges attended an interview with the Silk Road administrator caught in the sting.

The government has recovered over 50,000 Bitcoin that were stolen from The Silk Road in 2012. The coins were worth over $3 billion when they were seized by investigators.

$590M Silk Road Bitcoin sale unlikely, BTC bull rally far from over, and more: Hodler’s Digest Aug 11 – 17. Story by Cointelegraph By Editorial Staff ...

Silk Road was the first example of bitcoin’s ability to be used as an actual currency — a true financial facilitator of exchange between individual parties. Silk Road collected revenues of roughly 9.5 ...

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 ...

But some of the Bitcoin was missing, all traceable from the Silk Road addresses. About 50,000 had been stolen from Silk Road’s hot wallets back in September 2012. It was not a sophisticated hack.

Kate Nalepinski is a Newsweek journalist based in New York City. Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. Trump, who first proposed to pardon the Silk Road creator ...

Silk Road showed people that bitcoin could be effectively used as a medium of exchange on an open marketplace. This is an opinion editorial by Jacob Kozhipatt, a YouTuber and writer. For the ...