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An officer with Britain's National Crime Agency who stole cryptocurrency from the operator of an illegal dark web marketplace ...
A former National Crime Agency officer who stole Bitcoin seized from the operator of an illegal dark web marketplace has been ...
The father-of-three waited 'until the coast was clear' before he began spending £144,000 of the converted cryptocurrency on ...
An officer from the National Crime Agency (NCA) has been jailed for five and a half years after stealing nearly £60,000 worth ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...