An officer with Britain's National Crime Agency who stole cryptocurrency from the operator of an illegal dark web marketplace ...

The father-of-three waited 'until the coast was clear' before he began spending £144,000 of the converted cryptocurrency on ...

A former National Crime Agency officer who stole Bitcoin seized from the operator of an illegal dark web marketplace has been ...

Paul Chowles, who formed part of the NCA team which brought the dropout Liverpool John Moores University student down, seized ...

The trial of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged creator of the Silk Road Bitcoin-based black market for drugs, hasn't yet begun, but it's already raising hairy legal questions. First on the docket: Is ...

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 ...

Like gas stoves, bike lanes and Bud Light, crypto has become a hot item in the raging culture war of our times ...

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 ...

One is Silk Road founder Dread Pirate Roberts, who the FBI claim is currently in their custody. The other is Satoshi Nakamoto, the still-unidentified creator of Bitcoin.

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 ...

A former National Crime Agency police officer who stole 50 Bitcoin seized from a dark web drug dealer has been jailed. Paul ...