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 ...

For the last two years, Silk Road has been the bogeyman for Bitcoin critics. They pointed to the ability to buy drugs and guns on the site using the virtual currency as evidence Bitcoin could ...

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

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 ...

The revived online black market Silk Road says hackers took advantage of an ongoing Bitcoin glitch to steal $2.7 million from its customers.. The underground website's anonymous administrator told ...

In return, the Silk Road gave Bitcoin its first major infusion of die-hard users, a base that would drive the currency higher and higher. The so-called "prosecution futures" are coming due.

Silk Road was, in some sense, a last heave—a Hail Mary in the parlance of Ross’s football-mad hometown. By the time he got it open in late January, he had, by his own accounting, gone through ...

Prosecutors say Faiella, 54, of Cape Coral, Fla., ran a bitcoin exchange on Silk Road from December 2011 until the site shut down, and he violated federal law by failing to register with the ...