Tag Archives: Silk Road
Silk Road 2 founder sentenced five years after the site was shut down
It's been nearly five years since the feds shut down Silk Road 2. But its founder is only now being sentenced to prison. According to Motherboard, Thomas White, also known as Dread Pirate Roberts 2 (DPR2) plead guilty to drug trafficking, money laund...
Silk Road Mastermind Pleads Not Guilty
Ross Ulbricht still denies that he is the notorious “Dread Pirate Roberts”. This was the avatar used by the kingpin who was responsible for forming the drug selling site, Silk Road. The Internet...
DarkList Links Silk-Road-Style Drug Dealers
When the Department of Justice took down the anonymous, Bitcoin-based narcotics bazaar known as the Silk Road in October, the dark web drug market didn’t disappear. It splintered into smaller markets...
The Feds Are Ready To Sell $25 Million of Bitcoin Seized From The Silk Road
One of the bigger wallets on the Bitcoin blockchain is going to be emptied in the near future. Back in October, when the feds took down the online drug bazaar Silk Road, they seized the nearly 30,...
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Bitcoin Anonymity Upgrade Zerocoin To Become An Independent Cryptocurrency
When a group of cryptographers launched Zerocoin last year, they hoped their cryptography project could upgrade Bitcoin to be as anonymous as its most privacy-focused users have always wanted it to...
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China Bites Into Bitcoin
Bitcoins were worth nothing in 2009, when the digital cryptocurrency was first minted on the computer of its mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, who claimed to live in Japan. Four years later the...
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Bitcoin’s Incredible Year
Last year at this time, valued at just $13.50, one Bitcoin could get you a movie ticket if you could find a theater that had 1) heard of Bitcoin and 2) accepted it. Fat chance. Luckily, Bitcoin...
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Outrageous, Ridiculous, Puzzling and Just Plain Dumb Things Spouted By The Technorati In 2013
As the year draws to a close, let’s take a moment to reflect on some of the less profound statements made in 2013 by technology industry CEOs, entrepreneurs, insiders and other folks who should have...
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The Biggest Privacy Stories of 2013
Forget “twerking” and “selfies.” Dictionary.com dubbed “privacy” the word of the year in 2013. Here at The Not-So Private Parts, it feels a little like the unknown indie band we’ve been obsessed...
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