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€1.5m / $1.8m Worth of Bitcoin Seized in Dublin Drug Raid
by JAMIE MCCORMICK Less than a mile from my home, as the Web Summit wrapped up in Dublin’s RDS, Gardai (the Irish police) raided an office in the leafy suburbs. Two men were arrested as part of an...
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Random Darknet Shopper: Internet art randomly spends $100/wk of Bitcoin in...
Cory Doctorow It’s part of a Swiss gallery exhibit called The Darknet: From Memes to Onionland, where all the random junk the algorithm buys (from ecstasy to fire brigade master-keys to boxed Tolkien...
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Exclusive: Bitcoin Tycoon Mark Karpeles Denies Being Dread Pirate Roberts
WRITTEN BY Jake Adelstein The feds say Ross Ulbricht is the notorious mastermind behind defunct online drugs and weapons seller Silk Road. Ulbricht blames Mark Karpeles—who tells The Daily Beast he’s...
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Bitcoin buccaneers
One Dread Pirate is on trial; what about the others? MOST internet entrepreneurs dream of transforming an industry. On January 13th, one who may have done just that went on trial in federal court in...
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How Prosecutors Might Nail Ross Ulbricht Using The Supposedly Anonymous Bitcoin
Nicholas Weaver Nicholas Weaver is computer security researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley Many have quipped that the cryptocurrency known as bitcoin are really...
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Deep Web Drug Dealers Are Freaking Out About The Bitcoin Crash
ROB PRICE “Fantastic!” That’s the sarcastic reaction of one deep web dealer after losing $1,000 in a single night due to this week’s catastrophic Bitcoin price crash. The virtual currency has been...
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Twinkle, twinkle, little bitcoin
By Michael Andor Brodeur GLOBE CORRESPONDENT With the trial involving the black market website Silk Road underway, you may be hearing a lot about the shady-seeming digital currency known as bitcoin....
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Bitcoin Exchange Operator Sentenced to 4 Years for Silk Road Transactions
Robert Faiella (L), the accused co-conspirator of Bitcoin promoter Charlie Shrem (not pictured), walks out of federal court in Lower Manhattan, New York September 4, 2014. Adrees Latif/Reuters/Corbi...
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Millions stolen: Inside the elaborate Bitcoin scams of Tadas Kasputis,...
DUNCAN RILEY Mt Gox has become the ongoing meme for any negative story in the Bitcoin space. It is, and remains to date the largest loss by any Bitcoin exchange, but unlike what we are about to...
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Prosecutors Trace $13.4M in Bitcoins From the Silk Road to Ulbricht’s Laptop
If anyone still believes that bitcoin is magically anonymous internet money, the US government just offered what may be the clearest demonstration yet that it’s not. A former federal agent has shown in...
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